In today's Gilded Age with global warming, advocacy for socialism is on the rise, framed as a requirement to save our planet. But the idea that socialism can save us from ourselves has been tried before. It ended badly.

Ayn Rand claimed to defend capitalism. So why were her heroes such terrible businesspeople with no idea how companies actually work and make money?

Arguments against preventing another Great Recession by cracking down on banks' careless behavior are full of cherry-picking and bad faith.

Capitalism will always be with us. We just need to learn how to use it, not serve it like an angry deity.

Self-destructive greed is not good, especially self-destructive greed financed with public money.