Well, the good news is that Steve Forbes seems to have wearied of playing Edward Gibbon in his recent attempt to mine the ancient past for management tips. The far less good news is that the visionary publishing scion is still thinking great thoughts about the way things ought to be-and he still has an eponymous magazine, which conveniently doubles as a platform for repurposed book content. And yes, the still worse news is that the indefatigable Will Durant of Gramercy Square has released another book (again instigated with a long-suffering collaborator) called How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy-and he has once more shoveled it indiscriminately on to Forbes.com for the edification of its well-heeled self-regarding reader base, and to the mortification, no doubt, of the poor editors and writers marooned on the island of a publishing empire that Forbes' dad Malcolm built. READ MORE

I don't know where people get the idea our moguls are out of touch. Why, just look at the new feature over at Forbes-Power Ambition Glory, which is lavishly presented as a "Special Report," replete with a bust of Caesar placed tastefully opposite the mugs of failed presidential monomaniacs Rudy Giuliani and Steve Forbes. On closer inspection, the special report is a cut-and-paste repurposing of excerpts from a book, by Forbes and John Prevas, bearing the same oddly unpunctuated title, and the far wordier but no more grammatical subtitle, "The Stunning Parallels Between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today and the Lessons You Can Learn." READ MORE