David Brooks and Gail Collins engaged in at least a pantomime of the “What Kind of Capitalism Should We Have?” debate that I’ve…

Last month, Walter Russell Mead published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing our fixation on infrastructure. Mead acknowledges that building canals, railroads,…

An introduction to the American System essay series.

“We are all—people, States, Union, banks—bound up and interwoven together, united in fortune and destiny, and all, all entitled to the protecting…

The American Economic Forum was a reminder that we are perhaps our own worst enemy.

Understanding what drove the economic growth of the 19th and 20th centuries can help us appreciate how to recover that lost record.