Top 10 Midnight Meals, #3 When the Spotted Pig opened in 2004, it was a thunderous hit among Manhattan’s trendiest denizens. Meatpacking district revelers abandoned antiseptic clubs to crowd into a small pair of wood-plank rooms decorated with mismatched vintage fabrics, pig and mackerel mementos, and window box herbs. Even rail-thin starlets cheated on their diets with Roquefort-laden chargrilled ...

Kevin Phillips was a top aide to Richard Nixon 40 years ago (he coined the term “Sun Belt”). Since then, he’s turned into a professional scold, warning particularly about the nation’s dependency on the financial services industry. Mr. Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, fortuitously published earlier this ...