Milton Friedman

People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible?

The benefits that come with serving the country have withered in recent decades.

Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.

How "Choose Your Own Adventure" books indoctrinated ‘80s children with the idea that success is simply the result of individual “good choices.”

Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.

In the 1960s, the precursor to PBS explored the burgeoning conservative movement, providing a remarkable window into the history of conservatism.

Neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects worldwide.

The Olin Foundation funded the Federalist Society, seminars for judges, and much more.

How and why the First Amendment became a weapon for the right.

The industry's price-gouging economic model was engineered by Wall Street and its political enablers—and only Washington can fix it.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

Does the term clarify or confuse our understanding of capitalism today?

The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation’s most powerful corporations from President Trump’s now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative.

With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?

The author of a new biography of James McGill Buchanan explains how this little-known libertarian’s work is influencing modern-day politics.

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.