Maybe Steyn's motto should be "Too stupid to come to a conclusion." At any rate, he's a splendid example of John Kenneth Galbraith 's observation that "[t]he modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

And while we're quoting people far more perceptive than Steyn, let's not forget this one: "[The] disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition...is...the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." - Adam Smith