A former top tax aide to Sen. Charles Grassley talks about the 2017 tax-reform bill, the recent harsh critiques of philanthropy, and how he thinks the nonprofit sector should approach…
A former top tax aide to Sen. Charles Grassley talks to Michael E. Hartmann about his background, what it’s like to work for Grassley and on Capitol Hill, and the…
“Civic education is central to the perpetual renewal of American self-understanding,” E Pluribus Unum, the report of The Bradley Project on America’s National Identity, observed in 2008—as we noted earlier this year. This updated…
Four scholars from around the world present “evidence that individuals see political donations and charitable donations as substitutes” in an interesting January National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. “In other…
Darren Dochuk’s well-received new book Anointed With Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America is a comprehensive history of how Christianity and the petroleum industry together shaped the America in which…
“The biggest problem the right leaning donor class faces, whether they realize it or not, is that many leaders on Right they now support are either apolitical at their core…
“Do you think we should just get rid of the deduction, get rid of the exemptions, and get the IRS out of this business?” Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy…
Just as with “pulling the goalie,” properly assess the future, but in this case to “skate to the puck.” Don’t wait to skate—or, again analogizing to grantmaking, to spend.
A fun and interesting 2018 study of a season’s worth of National Hockey League data by New York University math professor Aaron Brown and hedge-fund manager Clifford Asness found that hockey…
The reality is that most big-district superintendents are off to the next job within three or four years, before the results are really clear. So, you get this weird, distorted…