Strategic Ultra-High-Net-Worth Philanthropy
Globally, there were an estimated 265,490 people with a net worth of $30 million or more in 2018, according to Wealth-X’s World Ultra Wealth Report 2019, by Maya Imberg and…
Book Profile
What Conservative Philanthropy Should Have Seen Coming
Respected Wall Street Journal executive editor Gerald F. Seib’s interesting and engaging new book "We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump—A Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution" skillfully overviews the 40-year reign…
Benevolence, Philanthropy, and Identity in Civic Gifts
The coronavirus pandemic has raised many serious questions regarding the roles of the public and private sectors in securing societal well-being. These include questions about the nature and scope of…
Scales of Philanthropy, and “Shares” of Wealth
“We should talk about philanthropy,” Sam Harris says a little more than halfway through Episode #205 of his always-interesting Making Sense podcast last month. “Obviously, I think we should encourage philanthropy as much as we can. I…
Religious Organizations in The Nonprofit Sector
The new, third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook offers a thorough assessment of the state of the nonprofit field. It features an examination of nonprofit religious organizations, including an…
Recognizing Symptoms of Groupthink in Philanthropy
“Groupthink,” as we understand it, is bad, we all know—or at least we think, or say, we do. Maybe we just label it away when we need or want to…
Conservative Philanthropy in The Nonprofit Sector
The new, third edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook offers a thorough assessment of the state of the nonprofit field—with 30 well-sourced and -endnoted chapters by 45 mostly academic…
Strassel’s Resistance (At All Costs) Features CRC Research
If you want to know who’s damaging American democracy, don’t point to Donald Trump—look at his leftist detractors. That’s the major theme of Wall Street Journal editorialist Kimberley Strassel in…
Philanthropy-Related Notes from Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites
Robert P. Saldin’s and Steven M. Teles’ new Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites is the first book-length history of those conservatives who opposed the election of, and…
George Soros: Philosophy
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros’s new book In Defense of Open Society reads like his last will and testament, an attempt to ensure that his philanthropic work will have a respected…