President Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of controversial right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, to a prominent board at the Air Force Academy. Erika Kirk's name was quietly added to the ...

Or so the Supreme Court seemed to think, in a very weird—and quite revealing—oral argument the justices heard last week.

It is striking, then, that some of the clearest guidance for this moment comes from a book published 250 years ago on Monday: “The Wealth of Nations,” by Adam Smith, who put optimism about people at ...

Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations", ⁠the ⁠foundational text of classical economics, ⁠marks its 250th anniversary on March 9.

Adam Smith’s free-markets masterwork, published on March 9, 1776, was about much more than economics.