Deborah Bell

The newspaper industry is dying, but the state of New Jersey thinks it may have found the solution: government funding of newspapers. Just months after the most leftwing governor in the state’s history, Philip Murphy, assumed office, the New Jersey…

Iron Man 3 and The Lone Ranger are recent Hollywood films—which is to say, major capitalist undertakings—that feature one of Hollywood’s favorite stereotypes: evil capitalists. In Iron Man 3, (spoiler alert) the real arch villain turns out to be the evil techno-capitalist, not…

Against the backdrop of sluggish growth and high unemployment, one bright spot has been declining crime rates, with levels in the United States now about half what they were 20 years ago. This gradual decline holds true even in the…