Capitalism

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Harper’s Magazine, on June 5, 2019

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

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Marilynne Robinson,

In 1989 I published a book about a plutonium-producing nuclear complex in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. The plant is called Sellafield now. In 1957, when it…

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s lecture “The American Scholar,” which he delivered in 1837, implicitly raises radical questions about the nature of education, culture, and consciousness, and about their interactions. He urges…

Left of Bernie

By Garret Keizer,

In the fall of 2014, I attended a public dialogue on “Revolution and Religion” between Bob Avakian, chairman and cofounder of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and Cornel West, professor of…

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

By Art Spiegelman,

Art Young would have turned 150 years old this month, and the finest gift we could have given him is Bernie Sanders’s campaign to welcome socialism back into America’s parlor…

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.