The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American PoliticsBy Thomas Byrne Edsall(Doubleday, 256 pages, $24.95)  Thomas Edsall’s new book…

Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind By Michael Murray (Frederic C. Beil, 302 pages, $26.95) Jacques Barzun, still going strong…

Proud to be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation. Edited by Jonah Goldberg (Harper, 242 pages, $15.99) For each…