IN THE July 31, 2017, ISSUE
A Game for Our Time
The eerily contemporary morality of Game of Thrones.
Magazine
Also In This Issue
Articles
A Wage-Growth Conundrum
Even in a recovery, workers aren’t gaining much, and no one knows why.
Bannon’s Bracket
In defense of the White House strategist’s call for a higher top tax rate.
Features
Books, Arts & Manners
The Reagan Strategy
A review of The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, by Henry Olsen.
Two Encounters of a Classic Kind
Reviews of Past and Present, by Gertrude Himmelfarb, and On Liberty and Its Enemies, edited by Timothy Fuller.
Being Somewhere
A review of The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics, by David Goodhart.
The Democratic Cause
A review of Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, by Condoleezza Rice.
Restoration of the Village
A review of From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920–1965, by Jon K. Lauck.
Sections
Real Men Wear Aprons
The president’s recent defense of Western civilization wasn’t just a dog whistle to the alt-right. It was a cur clarion!
Political Idols
Many of my fellow citizens have not only abandoned God, as I have, but have shelved a bunch of His good ideas as well.