Steven Pearlstein is a Pulitzer Prize-winning business and economics columnist for The Washington Post. Previously, he was The Post’s defense industry reporter, economics correspondent and Canada correspondent. In 2011, he won a Gerald R. Loeb Award for lifetime achievement in business and financial journalism. Also in 2011, he became the Robinson Professor of Political and International Affairs at George Mason University, where he helped launch the interdisciplinary Politics, Philosophy and Economics concentration for majors in those departments. Pearlstein has written the books “Moral Capitalism: Why Fairness Won't Make Us Poor” and “Can American Capitalism Survive?” He has appeared frequently as a commentator on national television and radio programs.