JD Vance’s awful book

You start by arguing against “market fundamentalism,” “neoliberalism,” and “extreme libertarianism,” and you end by arguing against economics. Vice President JD Vance is the latest postliberal to embrace what is now, for all intents and purposes, an anti-growth position. In his latest book, Communion, Vance inveighs against those perennial straw men, the GDP-obsessed economists. We keep…