Charles Koch

Philanthropy
Philanthropy in The Oligarchs’ Grip
n their forthcoming book The Oligarchs’ Grip: Fusing Wealth and Power, David Lingelbach and Valentina Rodríguez Guerra develop and present an academic model of the strategies oligarchs around the world employ to fuse wealth…
by Michael E. Hartmann on November 21, 2023

Philanthropy
Philanthropy and the Campus Wars—and Later, the Larger Culture War—in Resistance from the Right
“Conservatives did not win the campus wars of the 1960s, and they failed in almost every way to meaningfully pull faculty and students to the right during their time on…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 24, 2023

Philanthropy
Follow the Money
Conservative philanthropy in America has long been on the defensive, mostly against harsh critiques from liberals and progressives. For big grantmakers on the Right criticism has been considered a given.
by Michael E. Hartmann on May 1, 2023

Philanthropy
Philanthropy on the Defensive
Establishment philanthropy in America is on the defensive—as it should be. Measured in terms of its size, the philanthropic sector is big and getting bigger; this is not necessarily a bad…
by Michael E. Hartmann on April 25, 2022

Philanthropy
Philanthropy, Grassroots Activism, and Politics in In Defense of Populism
By its own terms, Donald T. Critchlow’s In Defense of Populism: Protest and American Democracy generally “provides less a taxonomy of populists grassroots movements,” though it does do that, “than…
by Michael E. Hartmann on October 29, 2021

Organization Trends, Philanthropy
Spinning the Iran Deal to the Media: Elite Philanthropy Disguised as Grassroots Activism
Flying slightly under the radar are the high-level talks to reenter the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the Iran deal. One weirder aspect of this almost…
by Sarah Lee on May 11, 2021