America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind of break from the economic status quo continued to ring out in the ...

Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.), who says, "Capitalism…is the absolute ...

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll concluded that “college students prefer socialism to capitalism.” Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet ...

From its beginnings, the capitalist economic system produced both critics and celebrants, those who felt victimized and those who felt blessed. Where victims and critics developed analyses, demands, ...

This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2023 issue of The Independent Review. In Defense of Capitalism might well have been subtitled “A Study in Appearance and Reality.” As Rainer ...

In the United States and beyond, a battle of ideas between socialism and capitalism is taking place that threatens the freedoms so many around the world enjoy. So how does the pro-capitalist defend ...

A mantra heard from Western European socialists and American progressives is that a political economy of frontier-style, “cowboy capitalism” runs amok across the fruited plains of the United States.

This book review is a web exclusive for the Summer 2025 issue of The Independent Review. Good books on capitalism are important and welcome, partly because, as Branko Milanovic argues, no viable ...

"Capitalism is moral, precisely because success comes from meeting the needs and wants of others," says Steve Forbes of Forbes magazine. "Higher standard of living comes from trading, buying, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America is a nation still at war with her mythologies. For all the electoral postmortems, in which a teeming desire for some kind ...