We’ve got another illustration in the New York Times Book Review this week, this time accompanying a review of Jonathan Chait’s book The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics. Chait’s argument focuses in particular on the controversial theories of Arthur Laffer, and his iconic Laffer Curve was the defining economic model for Ronald Regan and his fellow neocons. Our illustration plays on the idea that the Laffer Curve’s real message is that of a pot of gold at the end of its parabolic rainbow. Read Roger Lowenstein’s entire review here.