We want to be and do good, but sometimes our own sense of self-sufficiency can prevent us from doing so. To succeed, therefore, donors need to get much better at…
This article first appeared in Law & Liberty on December 9, 2019. Who Killed Civil Society?: The Rise of Big Government and the Decline of Bourgeois Norms argues that…
If philanthropists are going to do a good job in fighting poverty, they need to answer a fundamental question: who, exactly are the poor? What do they believe? For the left, the…
Four researchers wrote a fascinating Science Advances article in 2017 about “theories of knowledge development” that offer “different answers to the questions about where,” chronologically speaking, “one will find the…
This article first appeared on Philanthropy Daily on November 27, 2019 Barron Hilton died this year at age 91. He was one of three sons of Hilton Hotels founder…
This article originally appeared in the Giving Review, a blog of Philanthropy Daily, on November 19, 2019. California Gov. Jerry Brown in September 2018 signed a bill into …
As we brace for the holiday barrage, family vacations, and too many shopping holidays to count, it’s also the season for giving gifts to others and celebrating the good old…
I think it’s sound philanthropic practice for a donor who sets up a foundation to make sure that the foundation he creates sunsets within his lifetime or within a short…
This article first appeared on Philanthropy Daily on November 5, 2019. I don’t have very much to add to the long list of obituaries and articles written…
This article first appeared in the Giving Review, a blog on Philanthropy Daily, on October 31, 2019. The power of “the progressive liberal vision of American public life” reflected…