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.
Charles Koch
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…
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…
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…