Loving Mankind Poorly
This article originally appeared in RealClearBooks on February 1, 2019. A review of Daniel J. Mahoney’s The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity. In his…
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The Future of the Nation
This article originally appeared in City Journal on September 21, 2018. “Nationalism was not always understood to be the evil that current public discourse suggests,” philosopher Yoram Hazony…
Magazine Funding Skews Left. What Can Conservatives Do About It?
This article originally appeared in RealClearBooks on July 6, 2018. Generally and increasingly, public-affairs media outlets are unable to turn a profit and survive in the marketplace. Much of…
Philanthropy Against Democracy
Knowledge is power. So Sir Francis Bacon is supposedly the first to have said, in 1597. Well, okay, knowledge is generally considered a good thing, and it can serve good…
Living Right
This article originally appeared in the Claremont Review of Books, April 9, 2018. The Heritage Foundation’s Lee Edwards is one of the nation’s foremost historians of conservatism. Edwards’s books include histories…
Big Oil, Standing Rock Sioux, and how to actually help American Indians
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily In 2011 I was in a coffee shop across the street from the main Occupy encampment in Washington. I was trying to read…
Capital Research Center 2001 Donors Guide to Philanthropy Advisory Services: A Mandate for Charity Project
When most of us think of nonprofit charitable groups we naturally think of traditional charity groups like the Salvation Army, Meals on Wheels, Toys for Tots, and Boys' Town come…
Return to Charity?: Philanthropy and the Welfare State
Martin Wooster's new book Return to Charity? Philanthropy and the Welfare State is a quick read that's hopeful, fascinating and often funny. It's a short 65 page monograph that will…
Should Foundations Live Forever?: The Question of Perpetuity
Two cultures of American anti-poverty philanthropy live upstairs and downstairs from each other, sometimes meeting on the landings but then moving off into different worlds and different world views. We…
The Great Philanthropists & the Problem of “Donor Intent”:
How can those who create charitable foundations ensure that their wishes will be followed after their deaths? What's to prevent relatives, lawyers, and foundation officials from ignoring or reinterpreting a…