Charles “Chuck” Feeney, R.I.P.
Chuck Feeney, who died October 9, at the age of 92, may be the ultimate example of giving while living, as even his billionaire peers have long observed. He ranks…
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Paying for Hate on College Campuses
If anything could shake a Western champagne socialist to the bone, surely it would be the image of a young hippie woman, fresh from a music festival, with her legs…
A Conversation with Symposium Contributor Julius Krein
In “What do conservative donors want?,” Julius Krein, editor of the American Affairs quarterly journal, dauntlessly describes conservative philanthropy’s current predicament—and, equally dauntlessly, urges it to be self-critically clear and honest about its…
A Conversation with the New Jersey Constitutional Republicans
In a wide-ranging conversation with J.R. Carman of the New Jersey Constitutional Republicans, Capital Research Center (CRC) president Scott Walter discusses how CRC began as an organization that investigates donor…
Martin Morse Wooster: Book Man
An entire library was to Martin but an “after-dinner mint.” He daily consumed oceans of books, newspapers, and magazines on every subject imaginable and several beyond the imaginations of most…
Martin Morse Wooster: Martin’s Genuine “Civic Participation”
Martin understood what real civic participation is—love of your neighbors, your local sports teams, and your local civic festivals. Hazlett recalls how Martin “viewed every parade, and devoured each spectacle.”…
Martin Morse Wooster: Big Martin vs. Big Philanthropy
Martin relentlessly hammered Big Philanthropy. On the one hand, he could write with deep appreciation of titans whose entrepreneurial genius allowed them to amass a fortune that would later be,…
Kick Up Some Dust by Bernie Marcus
One of the best ways donors can preserve their intentions is to make their intentions as explicit as possible. The more a donor says about his ideas and passions, the…
Getting Close to Bad People: Episode 5 of Showtime’s The Lincoln Project
Outside of the pedantic rehash of 2020 election denial, the big reveal in Episode 5, and the reason why it is still well worth watching, involves coverage of the John…
The Outrage Machine: Episode 4 of Showtime’s The Lincoln Project
Showtime’s The Lincoln Project (full series) Introduction | Episode 1 | Episode 2 Episode 3 | Episode 4 | Episode…