Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School and a Chazen Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for ...

For decades, Marxism and the socialist tradition more generally — of which Marxism is just apart — were associated with a doctrine known as materialism. But in the recent past, this approach has ...

Researchers have provided more insight into what may be one of the roots of the dissatisfaction caused by materialism -- a diminished view of the importance of marriage itself. Madonna may have loved ...

I AM taking the word with the worst reputation I know, to describe what I mean, because it seems better to err on the side of frankness than to hide radical ideas under the cloak of conservatism.

Using a smartphone for hours every day can foster a condition called nomophobia. Nomophobia—short for no mobile phone phobia—is the unreasonable fear of being without a smartphone or other mobile ...