Example of beautiful academic writing

I have to admit, I really like this author.

On the subject of current controversies in housing economics:

Rent Control: well within memory are the flaming battles over this issue, which left scarring wounds and broken friendships. only a scatter of flickering embers survive in such aberrant (to conservatives, freakish) locales as New York City and Santa Monica. The war was fought in legislatures and courthouses, in the media and around the dinner table, and not least of all in academia. Early on, the controversy engaged the pinnacle of the economics profession, including a duo of future Nobel laureates, Milton Friendman and the late George Stigler, co-authors of “Roofs or Ceilings?”. Outside protected turf, the issue is now so much discard in history’s dustbin, resurfacing in policy journals about as infrequently as sightings of the condor. In the national media, only the Wall Street Journal periodically flags the anomaly in its exhibit of the horrors begot when evil politics ravish pure markets.