capitalism

In Bong Joon Ho’s new satire, both versions of the title character are as expendable as the underclasses that fuel our capitalist system.

David Leonhardt tells the story in the language of economic analysis.

How can rest be a political act? Poet-theologian Tricia Hersey returns to this question often.

Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.

For Joerg Rieger, theology must account for global power dynamics, which are largely driven by capitalism.

Lucia Hulsether explores how the global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway tell the story of US economic history in a way that obscures as much as it reveals.

Lyndsey Medford’s beautiful new book looks to interconnectedness amid the diseases of capitalism and injustice.

As the Soviet Union crumbled, the West sent French fries.

Grace Olmstead has written a reverent ode to those who stick around.

Two economists tell the story and suggest reforms.

New books that are shaping discussions about ethics in a capitalist society

Eugene McCarraher explains how money became our object of worship.

Darren Dochuk shows how oil and American Christianity have long shaped each other.

The theologian doesn’t want finance capitalism to determine what we’re worth.

“Religious vocation sits very uneasily with individual self-advancement.”

The fall of Sears reflects larger problems with how corporations are run.

Bruce Rogers-Vaughn believes that modern capitalism isn't simply anti-government. It's also anti-human and anti-church.

What do terrorists and populist nationalists have in common? They're fueled by inequality.

There’s nothing subtle about Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Marxist critique of life in postcolonial Kenya.