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…
Crossposted with permission from History of Philanthropy — article dated March 8, 2018 The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee has generally been considered by both its allies and (grudgingly)…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated March 6, 2018 On January 8, 2018, Charles Murray turned 75. On his birthday, which he shares with Elvis Presley and Lewis Lapham, Murray…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated February 22, 2018 You’ve seen these commercials, on the low-rent cable channels where the advertisers are trial lawyers and companies with 800 numbers hawking…
Crossposted from Philanthropy Daily — article dated February 15, 2018 People who want to give have a wide variety of causes for which their money can be used. But how can…