With the constant barrage of news, it is easy to focus on the president’s newest outrage. Less obvious, permanent damage is being done to our republic’s founding principle of “democratic capitalism.” ...

Historian Sheri Berman on the links between declining democracy, neoliberal economics and what’s driving radicalization on the right and left, Democracy is facing an uncertain future in the United ...

Capitalism defines freedom as autonomy in the marketplace, freedom from restraint. Democracy defines freedom as power in the political process ...

Throughout history, humans have always searched for ways to predict the future. AI is just the latest tool to try to predict how humans will behave. While some believe that predictive tools can be ...

Any economic activity requires non-economic domains to support it. From this perspective, the author views capitalism as an 'institutionalized social order' that encompasses these non-economic domains ...

Laura and Bloomberg’s Stephanie Flanders delve into politico-economic issues in the news. Is the West’s experiment with social democracy over? Is survival of the richest our fate? In this episode, ...

Capitalism recognizes individual effort, private ownership, and the pursuit of financial independence through hard work, innovation and competition. Unregulated savage capitalism prioritizes profit ...

Sohrab Ahmari takes a long, historical view of capitalism and finds one period in the modern era when economies worked well. In the United States, this was the 40 or so years after the Great ...

Absolute individual freedom is a paradox, as it can lead to the oppression of others. Philosophers like Hobbes and Locke argued that people form societies and governments to create order and protect ...

Freedom does not give you the license to impinge on the rights of others because absolute freedom creates a paradox where no one is actually free. If individual liberty had no limits, the strong could ...