This article originally appeared in RealClearPolicy, April 20, 2018. I recently saw a billboard in Milwaukee that asked, “What idea is worth $10,000?” It urged its viewers to watch…
This piece originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 18, 2018. Of course the scandal about Oxfam, where The Times of London reported that Ronald Van Hauermeiren allegedly used prostitutes…
The day before Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress to defend the social network, Facebook announced: “a new initiative to help provide independent, credible research about the…
This article originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 11, 2018. It’s a form of recycling that’s over a century old. When Rev. Edgar Helms started the nonprofit that became Goodwill…
Editor’s Note: As Ms. Mayer has pointed out, Capital Research Center has received Koch funding in some of our 34 years (although not in 2016, 2017, or 2018). That funding…
This piece originally appeared in Philanthropy Daily, April 3, 2018. It’s a question every donor to charter schools wants to know: how do I know my grants are being…
This piece first appeared in RealClearPolicy on March, 23, 2018. In his 2006 book “The Economics of Attention,” UCLA English professor emeritus Richard A. Lanham persuasively argues that the…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article is dated March 22, 2018 “There is an underappreciated paradox of knowledge that plays a pivotal role in our advanced hyper-connected liberal democracies: the…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 22, 2018 One of the perennial trends in the education debate is that someone every few years comes up with a fresh new…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 15, 2018 In the 20th century, when charity evolved into philanthropy, one of the casualties was that grants shifted away from individuals and towards…