“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves,” wrote Shakespeare, an enduring testament to the omnipotence of choice. For in finance, as in language, power is not merely in what is ...

Phil ride-along.” “The fact of the matter is, as improbable and maddening as Trump’s particular political success has been for so many reasons, he isn’t omnipotent. He’s not a colossus.

In “1984,” George Orwell’s classic novel of state oppression, powerful telescreens enable a totalitarian regime to rule over dispossessed proles with unchecked omnipotence. But today we live ...