The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is neither a history of economics, nor a religious history. It borrows from ...

Capitalism has driven innovation and growth, but at what cost? This video explores the social and environmental consequences of an economic system focused on profit above all else. Full list of ...

Re: “Socialism offers what’s wrong with capitalism” (Oct. 11, Northwest Voices): To the letter writer: Tell me about the “decent lives” lived by people in China or Cuba. It sounds great to force the ...

Workers at a Ford plant in Michigan, 1920s. (Getty Images) The relationship between capitalism and democracy in America isn’t always easy—and it has been that way since 1776. After the American ...

Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2022, though it was hardly a new phenomenon even then. In granting apps the right to wield the absurdities of intellectual property law to legally bully ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...

Early in his new book, CENTURY columnist Phil Christman recounts a formative, almost mystical episode from a college Bible study. Amped on adolescent anxiety and tormented by the sort of shame in ...

Last month, the Trump administration and Nvidia worked out what some have called an unusual and surprising deal for the latter to export its defeatured AI chips. That is, President Trump reversed a ...

As New York City’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mandani lays out progressive plans on the campaign trail, a new Fox News national survey reveals capitalism remains more popular than socialism.

Americans’ approval of capitalism has plunged to a record low, while their support for socialism has ticked up slightly in recent years, a new Gallup poll shows. Only 54% of US adults surveyed said ...