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Book Profile
The Tragedy of American Compassion: Pilgrim Beginnings
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 3, 2023

Book Profile
The Tragedy of American Compassion: Government “Compassion”
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…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 3, 2023

Featured Items
Capital Research, January 2023
In the January 2023 issue of “Capital Research,” Al Gore has a remarkable 30-year record of being wrong on climate and the environment. The World Economic Forum cheerleads for COVID-19…
by CRC Staff on March 27, 2023

Special Report
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…
by Scott Walter on February 16, 2023

Special Report
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.”…
by Scott Walter on February 16, 2023

Special Report
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,…
by Scott Walter on February 16, 2023

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Video: What Do Conservatives Have in Common with the Black Panthers?
Truth is often stranger than fiction. In 1967 the Black Panthers were the known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This early version of the Black Panthers had some…
by CRC Staff on February 7, 2022

Philanthropy
Q&A with Welfare Reformer Jason Turner (Part 1 of 2)
Twenty-five years after enactment of state and federal work-based welfare reform, the executive director of the Secretaries’ Innovation Group covers the circumstances surrounding the reforms’ passage and the positive effects…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 6, 2021

Philanthropy
Q&A with Welfare Reformer Jason Turner (Part 2 of 2)
Twenty-five years after enactment of state and federal work-based welfare reform, the executive director of the Secretaries’ Innovation Group (SIG) addresses philanthropy and welfare reform, SIG, and application of the…
by Michael E. Hartmann on December 6, 2021

Organization Trends
The Black Panthers Promoted the Second Amendment and Private Schools
The Black Panthers were nobody’s idea of responsible gun ownership in 1977. But it didn’t start out that way. In 1967 they were the known as the Black Panther Party…
by Ken Braun on August 16, 2021