Reason Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey debate the merits of capitalism with Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara and U Mass economist Richard D. Wolff
Richard D. Wolff squares off against Gene Epstein on which system better promotes freedom, equality, and prosperity.
Of those who reported a negative view of capitalism, 20 percent say it's exploitative or corrupt.
The progressive agenda assumes that no amount of taking will ever lead to less earning.
The controversial cultural critic rightly praises capitalism for its subversion of the status quo and its ability to make us fat.
Some DSAers were worried about being associated with antifa, but the motion passed 521–493.
But it wasn't all woke one-upmanship—they also discussed public policy.
The El Paso shooter's combination of anti-capitalism, bigotry, and xenophobic nationalism highlights the dangers of zero-sum thinking on left and right. His worldview resembles that of the perpetrator of a similar attack in New Zealand earlier this year. Sadly, these ideas are not confined to a few extremists.
A decade after Obamacare, the Democratic Party has embraced health care radicalism.
The former Maryland congressman criticized the progressive wing of the Democratic Party for embracing such expansive government involvement.
Attempts to centrally plan an economy ruin both civic life and life's pleasures.
Nonpartisan and center-left groups are casting doubt on the Vermont senator's revenue estimates.
How dangerous is the democratic socialist resurgence?
A new report from the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights finds a "shockingly high" number of politically motivated extrajudicial killings.
From socialism to nationalism, debunked ideologies are making a return.
Tulsi Gabbard's defense of non-interventionism was electrifying. Tonight's fight between Biden and Sanders over capitalism and socialism will be, too.
The president's first big rally was a greatest hits show that dodged many of today's biggest issues.
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
Bernie Sanders' Democratic rivals may laugh at his socialist pretensions. But in important ways, he's winning.
I do not think that means what you think it means.
The seemingly new version of socialism advocated by many on the left today has all too many flaws in common with old kind.
Sanders no longer favors government takeover of "the major means of production." But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.
The HBO series is a powerful portrait of the political and social rot that occurs in authoritarian regimes.
Capitalism isn't conservative when it comes to social and economic life. It provides exactly the sort of "bold, structural changes" socialists want but inevitably botch.
Like so many of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister's The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success
Marx “was a champion of free trade, and no friend of tariff barriers.”
Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates. There will be unintended consequences.
Designing and implementing a government-run health plan would raise many difficult questions.
He's a centrist compared to Sanders, but he's also a classic big-government liberal.
The Vermont socialist can muster a lot of emotional outrage at CEO pay, but his argument about a "moral economy" doesn't add up.
More violence hit Venezuela today following opposition leader Juan Guaidó's calls for the military to abandon the Maduro government.
A libertarian goes to a conference on socialism and finds some surprising similarities.
The democratic socialist gets rich—and makes the argument for capitalism.
Plus: a radical remembering of the suburbs; support for sex-work decrim in NY; Bret Easton Ellis on Mueller and media
Legal scholar John McGinnis argues the answer is "yes." But the issue is a far closer one than he suggests.
Media personalities claim socialism didn't cause Venezuela's collapse, but it did. Here's how.
A system that lets us make our own decisions about our own lives is more moral than one that transfers them to powerful strangers.
"Chavez racked up an economic record that a legacy-obsessed American president could only dream of achieving."
The awful ideology of the perpetrator of the recent terrorist attack in New Zealand is one of many examples of how far-right nationalists and far-left socialists have more in common than we often think. Both worldviews rest on the dangerous assumption that we are locked in a zero-sum game in which some groups can only succeed and prosper at the expense of others.
Soviet revolutionary Vladimir Lenin used the motto, "Land to the peasants, peace to the nations, bread to the starving." Sounds good, right?
There's a word for that….
Democratic mega-proposals, GOP budgetary fictions, prostitution decriminalization surprises, and Zardoz moments galore
In good economic times, heightened inequality means that class tensions are heightened, as soaring visible wealth stokes envy and resentment.
Plus: Klobuchar thinks government should profit when Big Tech sells your data, and the FDA drops a ban on genetically modified salmon.
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