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Last year I met with an elected official frequently described in the press as friendly to the business community. The politician suggested the two of us could find common ground over shared "pro-business" leanings. That’s nice, I replied, but support for economic freedom does not always mean support for business. When the two conflict, I would choose the former. Annoyed, the ...

Roy Cohn, who burst onto the national political scene in the 1950s by pursuing communists, first in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and later as chief aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, transformed himself in the 1960s and '70s into a take-no-prisoners divorce lawyer and mouthpiece for Mafia bosses, and then served as a mentor to an up-and-coming New York developer name...

In the 20th century, certain corporate brands became so well-known as to be immediately recognizable: McDonald's golden arches, the Nike swoosh, and, for a certain segment of the population, the Mary Kay pink Cadillac.

Mary Kay founded her eponymous cosmetics empire in 1963 and eventually became the first woman to chair a company on the New York Stock Exchange. She bou...

Down the generations, certain intellectuals have been attracted to opera. Nietzsche, outstandingly. Also Bernard Williams, the English philosopher (1929–2003). Williams wrote about opera throughout his life, and, three years after his death, a collection was published:

The Reagan Revolution didn't just usher in a wave of prosperity, but also wholesome patriotism. Every proper child of the 1980s has a wisp of nostalgia for the times. Reagan was an actor, and Hollywood wasn't so uptight about politics. Producers then shoveled cash into content that lionized the military, pleased the White House, and made America's blood pump. Veterans like