Prescription for the Democrats

In Ronald Reagan’s America, Bob Kuttner has emerged as the Great Refuter. In The Life of the Party, Kuttner bemoans the paucity of Reagan Age journalists attempting to “influence the mainstream debate from the left.” Kuttner is the preeminent exception to his own rule. No one has more effectively attacked the conventional wisdoms of a mean time.

Through his writings on economic policy in the New Republic, Business Week, this, and other journals, i...