Alexis de Tocqueville

Philanthropy
Trustees! Beware Hiring A Queeg
Regardless of the iteration, Captain Philip Francis Queeg represents an archetypical leader that organizations of all stripes, especially nonprofits, must avoid placing atop their leadership structures, lest they founder when…
by Robert E. Wright on January 16, 2024

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Revisiting Contemporary Philanthropy as Part of a First Estate “Clerisy”
The current equivalent of America’s First Estate clerisy, including that of it in establishment philanthropy, should self-awarely take cognitive-elite note of and understand the contemporary rise of this populist anti-establishment…
by Daniel P. Schmidt, Michael E. Hartmann on January 27, 2023

Philanthropy
A Conversation with I, Citizen Author Tony Woodlief (Part 1 of 2)
In Part 1, Tony Woodlief, State Policy Network executive vice president, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about path dependence, his career in conservative policy-oriented nonprofitdom, and whether philanthropy has contributed…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 31, 2022

Philanthropy
A Conversation with I, Citizen Author Tony Woodlief (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 2, Tony Woodlief, State Policy Network executive vice president, talks to Michael E. Hartmann about love of neighbor, Tocqueville, localism, and politics, along with some more about philanthropy…
by Michael E. Hartmann on January 31, 2022

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Conservatism, philanthropy, and The Dying Citizen
Beginning in the 1990s, the conservative Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation framed its mission as helping to develop and implement an anti-progressive “New Citizenship” agenda. Victor Davis Hanson’s new…
on October 27, 2021

Book Profile, Philanthropy
America’s Move from “I” to “We” and Back to “I”
Harvard University political scientist Robert D. Putnam’s new book The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, written with Shaylyn Romney Garrett,…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 9, 2020