In Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court, Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino recount the mass hysteria that gripped America’s judiciary during the 2018…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…