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During last week’s episode of Bari Weiss’s Honestly podcast, multi-billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, political activist, and philanthropist Peter Thiel brief talked about the effectiveness of giving in the contexts of…
In politics, “[a]long with upscale, educated, hyper-ideological primary voters, the selectorate of each party includes affluent party donors,” according to Michael Lind in his important new book Hell to Pay:…
The successful entrepreneur and Napa Institute founder talks to Michael E. Hartmann about his grantmaking, the importance of a focus on mission, and the continuing relevance of the work of…
Marvin Olasky’s "The Tragedy of American Compassion" (Regnery, 2022) turned 30 last year. Three decades later it still stands as one of the most important books challenging modern America’s enormous…
The stock market’s collapse in 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression put to rest any shame of going on the government dole. Yet the New Deal’s liberal social ideas could…
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.
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…
Long before the Revenue Act of 1917 created a tax deduction for charitable contributions, Americans gave to charity and formed voluntary associations of every kind. The genius of American philanthropy,…
The nationally prominent legal expert in the taxation of nonprofits talks to Michael E. Hartmann about her career, the different revenue-raising and regulatory roles of the IRS, the non-revenue-related role…