This dumb article by Daniel J. Flynn, author of A Conservative History of the American Left,for City Journal, is basically another salvo in the endlessly overanalyzed debate over whether libraries should serve to enlighten the public or just give them what they want. As a bonus, it’s also a totally uninformed piece arguing the video games are incapable of intellectual stimulation or artistic achievement. Finally, it argues that lending video games (to be played, you know, at HOME and not at the library) will somehow turn libraries “from quiet sanctuaries in a noisy world to extensions of the high-decibel environment.”