Welcome to the spring issue of the Defenders of Capitalism newsletter. Each quarter, we examine economics, culture, and history through a simple but often neglected lens: the human mind as

Hardly a day goes by without a headline lamenting the fact that the peoples of the world aren’t prolific enough in the baby-making department (with a few sub-Sahara African exceptions,

I just returned from a visit to The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in many respects a first-world tropical paradise in a collectivist Caribbean hell-hole of a neighborhood—think Haiti and Cuba.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Defenders of Capitalism newsletter. Each quarter, we’ll examine economics, culture, and history through a simple but often neglected lens: the human mind as

During the Cold War, Soviet propagandists were always eager for evidence that capitalism was cruel, unstable, morally bankrupt and ultimately dehumanizing. So, when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath appeared—first

Engrossed in the divisive politics and outrage industrial complex of our era, many people ignored one of the most interesting spectacles of the year: a parade of six planets on