A Wage-Growth Conundrum Even in a recovery, workers aren’t gaining much, and no one knows why. By Robert VerBruggen
Bannon’s Bracket In defense of the White House strategist’s call for a higher top tax rate. By Reihan Salam
The Reagan Strategy John Fund reviews The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism, by Henry Olsen.
Two Encounters of a Classic Kind Jay Nordlinger reviews Past and Present: The Challenges of Modernity, from the Pre- Victorians to the Postmodernists, by Gertrude Himmelfarb, and On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue, edited by Timothy Fuller.
Being Somewhere John Fonte reviews The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics, by David Goodhart.
The Democratic Cause Katherine Connell reviews Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom, by Condoleezza Rice.
Restoration of the Village James Matthew Wilson reviews From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920–1965, by Jon K. Lauck.
