Edmund Burke saw society as a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are yet to be born. A failure to understand this relationship underlies a disturbing global tendency in recent decades, in which the appropriation of future wealth and resources for current consumption is increasingly disadvantaging future generations. Without a commitment to addressing …

Goldman Sachs is embracing the machines. The firm that has long cultivated an image of relationship banking and trusted advice — in reality Goldman was always more of a trading house than rivals Morgan Stanley or boutiques like Lazard — now says it plans to hand over about half of the IPO process to computers. Goldman is trying to portray …

Silicon Valley tech moguls are conducting an enormous experiment on the nation’s children. We should not be so trusting that they’ll get it right. Alphabet Inc. unit Google has taken a big role in public education, offering low-cost laptops and free apps. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Inc. is investing heavily in educational technology, largely though the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Netflix …