Capitalism

Disappearing Ink

By Claire Messud,

From Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, a collection of essays, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton. We live in an era…

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Harper’s Magazine, on June 5, 2019

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Marilynne Robinson,

An idea that won’t go away

Save Our Public Universities

By Marilynne Robinson,

In defense of America’s best idea

Left of Bernie

By Garret Keizer,

You say you want a revolution

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

By Art Spiegelman,

A nearly forgotten cartoonist we need to look at — right now!

The Melancholy of Anatomy

By Wendell Berry,

By Wendell Berry, from Our Only World, out this month from Counterpoint. Berry’s essay “Faustian Economics” appeared in the May 2008 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Read More

Phony Capitalism

By Joseph Stiglitz,

By Joseph Stiglitz, adapted from a white paper published in May by the Roosevelt Institute, where he is chief economist. Stiglitz received the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.