In 1978, the respected neo-conservative Irving Kristol wrote a book called “Two Cheers for Capitalism,” arguing that capitalism was essentially valuable but also flawed. The same could be said for ...

As you explore the Bazaar and meet its residents, you find two Survivors confronting a merchant, Julian, following their friend having taken ill after drinking some of his water. Julian pleads ...

We need to get ahead of this thing. I’ve heard this refrain countless times over the past two years in AI policy circles. But listen closely, and you’ll discover the real message underneath, a quiet ...

One of my favorite papers by 2024 Nobel laureates Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson goes back a decade: “Can We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent ...

Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 192 pp., $26) If liberal democracy is a second-best, fallback position that we endorse because the alternatives are ...

Michael Lind has made so many, and such glowing, references to me in What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America’s Greatest President that I am not sure whether I should have appeared ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Goodman offers market-based solutions to public policy problems. A rare bipartisan agreement in Congress would create a larger ...