In the opening passage of one of the first American constitutions, George Mason wrote that the rights of the people of Virginia are the “basis and foundation of government … which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of…
At his death, a debate arose about what exactly Steve Jobs had done for Apple Inc., the company he co-founded and led as CEO for many years. Some even wondered whether he had contributed much of anything, and therefore might be getting too much credit for Apple’s extraordinary success. After all, he hadn’t produced the drawings for the iPhone or…