It was 1975, and Fidel Castro was reading ‘Jaws.’”  Wendy Benchley shared that complex shard of history with me. She’s the widow of Peter Benchley, who authored the best-selling novel that would ...

One of the most popular shows in the history of television is coming to its close. Don’t expect a happy ending.

But, resilient, protean, abused and occasionally bailed-out, capitalism is still with us, and so are its critics, the latest in a line so long that Mr. Cassidy, who was setting out to tell ...

On Saturday, the ‘Oracle of Omaha's departure as Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) CEO has triggered an outpouring of admiration from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.

John Cassidy’s “Capitalism and Its Critics” is a rewarding guide to the many fascinating attempts throughout history to rethink or resist the economic system April 19, 2025 8 min Summary ...

The latest in the series, Captain America: Brave New World, is not, I would say, appointment viewing. But it is striking because it is a film that wants to be about deep political issues — but ...

Capitalism is a fetish. And when I say fetish, I mean the actual definition of the word: an obsessive preoccupation or attachment; a fixation. The word fetish is derived from the Latin factitius ...

Jay L. Zagorsky receives funding from the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute. H. Sami Karaca receives funding from the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute. Capitalism, communism and socialism are economic and ...

Both the state capitalism of the West and the communism of the Soviet Union and China during the 20th century created morphologically similar structural and organizational patterns—centralized ...

This trend highlights a broader issue of global capitalism, where multinational corporations undermine local economies. In the UK and US, the dominance of mega-corporations has led to job losses and ...