In Sidney Lumet’s 1976 masterpiece, “Network,” a film about a disaffected newscaster who loses his mind on air, a business mogul played by Ned Beatty delivers an impassioned monologue that lasts for ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Harvard historian Sven Beckert’s 1,300-page Capitalism: A Global History relentlessly critiques capitalism’s alleged failings. But if capitalism is so flawed, why does it stand alone as the world’s ...

Capitalism has a public relations problem. While many will grudgingly admit that capitalism, the economic system based on private property and free trading, yields faster rates of economic growth, ...

Observers of the climate change debate are increasingly souring on Naomi Klein’s green-cloaked dated Marxist indictment of capitalism. Most recently, Jonathan Chait, a writer for New York Magazine, ...

President Donald Trump’s increasing control over businesses and the economy is being described by some commentators as “state capitalism”—a mix between socialism and capitalism. But the term “state ...