U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attend the 125th Army-Navy football ...

This exceedingly interesting study of old and new money in 19th-century New York City can be read as a companion piece to the fiction of Henry James and, most particularly, Edith Wharton. Eric ...

A hundred years ago, the word billionaire sounded like science fiction. There were wealthy industrialists, yes, but no one walking around with a net worth of a thousand million dollars. Today, the ...

One of my best friends who I am committed to meet fortnightly for our mutual discussions and conversations on national and international matters asked me an interesting question during our last ...

Yale Law professor Amy Chua cruised to wide attention several years ago for a supposedly satirical book about shaping her kids into child prodigies with brutal hazing. She recently wrote another book ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, was a scion of old-school aristocracy which is still bound by the concept of ‘noblesse oblige’ (Christopher Thomond/The Guardian) Not, alas, being a regular ...

David Somerville: The first thing we did was scrawl a whole bunch of words and images on a whiteboard. One set of images depicted conspicuous consumption: an overflowing bottle of champagne that’s ...

Black aristocracy is being spotlighted in HBO's "The Gilded Age" but there is more to the story than the The Scott family's plot. Groups of enterprising Black people began to use their newfound ...

Zócalo Public Square is a magazine of ideas from Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise. In the summer of 1861, an American diplomat in Turin, Italy, looked out the window of the U.S. legation ...

AMERICANS have always assumed that wealth comes and goes. A poor person can work hard, become rich and pass his money on to his children and grandchildren. But then, if those descendants do not manage ...

When he testified before Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg loved to tell legislators that his team would “follow up with you” on that, or that his team is building AI tools for that. These AI ...