In 2022, philanthropic organizations the Hewlett Foundation and the Omidyar Network gave millions of dollars in grants to top universities to “reimagine capitalism.” This reimagination is necessary, they said, because “for more than 40 years, neoliberalism has dominated economic and political debates, both in the U.S. and globally, with its free-market fundamentalism and growth-at-all-costs approach
In Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America, Charles Gasparino, the Fox Business Network senior correspondent and longtime Wall Street reporter, wades directly into America’s culture wars to focus on how progressive politics is running rampant in corporate boardrooms. The idea for the book—Gasparino’s sixth and his first in
My father Leo is a Jewish refugee from the former Soviet city of Ufa. As his 19-year-old son, I left home for college last year well-versed in the evils of communist double-think, party propaganda, and the disastrous policies wedded to generations of poverty. (Oddly enough, that knowledge would soon prove useful in navigating a university
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling, reinstating the requirement for voters to date their mail-in ballot envelopes. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a decision on Sept. 13 that upholds a requirement in the key battleground state that voters must include accurate dates on the exterior envelopes of their mail-in ballots for the
Haitians are asking people to give them more time to adapt to a new culture, but residents worry about their safety and the drain on resources. SPRINGFIELD, Ohio—They live on separate sides of Springfield, but Rhonda Zimmers and Melissa Skinner noticed gradual changes to their neighborhoods in this Ohio city midway between Dayton and Columbus,
Israeli decision-makers are considering a plan to lay siege to northern Gaza in an effort to ramp up pressure on Hamas. The “Generals’ Plan,” a three-page document published last week by high-ranking Israel Defense Forces reserve officers, calls to evacuate up to 300,000 civilians from the northern 1/3 of Gaza and then block all supplies
George Orwell (né Eric Blair) left England for Burma at age 19, a freshly minted graduate of Eton College, the poshest school in the British Empire. The year was 1922, and Orwell/Blair would remain in Burma until 1927, a member of the imperial police force. What little we know of his time there can be