J.D. Vance is a pious man, and has written a book to tell you how he became so. “Communion” has little in common with “Hillbilly Elegy”, the book that made the future vice-president’s name. Mr Vance is now fond of quoting the Gospel according to Matthew: “by their fruits ye shall know them.” Our reviewer, however, wonders which of Mr Vance’s many fruits we shall know him by.

And a row about GDP accounting may not set hearts racing. But our Free Exchange column calls a dispute about the size of Europe’s economy relative to America’s akin to the World Cup of economics. It has big implications for how worried European policymakers should be.

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