A related display of doublethink appeared in the literary pages of The Observer. In reviewing Marx's Revenge by Meghnad Desai, Faisal Islam adopted a tone that was similarly crowing, triumphant and irrational. With an unwarranted confidence that is eerily common among free marketeers, Islam asserted: "The market is a tool for eliminating scarcity." The housing market, one of many markets that thrive on scarcity, seems, rather improbably, to have escaped consideration. "For those who still express moral indignation at pronounced and prolonged inequality and poverty, the market is the most likely escape route..." he blustered, "Arguments expressed in the language of the free market are listened to, whereas moral sentimentality about excessive inequality is worthy but ineffective.