Daniel P. Schmidt

The Giving Review co-editor Daniel P. Schmidt retired in 2017 from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee as its Vice President for Program. He joined Bradley in 1985 and worked there as a Program Officer, Senior Program Officer, Vice President for Operations, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and in 2001 and 2002, Acting President.

During his more than three decades at Bradley, Schmidt helped it become one of the country’s most-influential and -effective conservative policy-oriented foundations. Among other things, he oversaw creation in 1989 of the Bradley Commission on History in Schools; the annual Bradley Symposium in Washington, D.C.; and the 2008 Bradley Project on America’s National Identity.

Before joining Bradley, Schmidt was Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Marquette University, where he had earned his Ph.D. in History and taught Russian History and Western Civilization.

Schmidt currently serves on the boards of directors of the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation in Chicago, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Seton Catholic Schools network, and Messmer Catholic Schools in Milwaukee.

He has written for National Affairs, National Review Online, City Journal, RealClearPolicy, RealClearBooks, RealClearReligion, Philanthropy Daily, HistPhil, and the Capital Research Center.

A conversation with billionaire philanthropist David M. Rubenstein (Part 2 of 2)

The Carlyle Group co-founder and co-chairman talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about his upcoming PBS documentary series examining the history and meaning of some of America’s iconic national symbols.

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann / 2 min read
A conversation with billionaire philanthropist David M. Rubenstein (Part 1 of 2)

The Carlyle Group co-founder and co-chairman talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about what he calls “patriotic philanthropy.”

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann / 2 min read
Paul Johnson, R.I.P.

Sober historian, disciplined thought, jovial presence.

Daniel P. Schmidt / 2 min read
Revisiting contemporary philanthropy as part of a First Estate “clerisy”

Newly out in paperback, Joel Kotkin’s book on the coming “neo-feudalism”—comparing current class conditions to those of the Middle Ages—correctly characterizes the current status and a current role of foundations.

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann / 5 min read
Benedict
Revisiting Pope Benedict’s thought on reason and faith

An excerpt from our 2020 conversation with Samuel Gregg, during which he discusses Benedict and “the civilizational challenge of our time.”

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann / 5 min read
Frank Shakespeare, R.I.P.

We should be as willing to continue to learn from him as he has always so humbly been to learn from, and with, others.

Daniel P. Schmidt / 3 min read
Gratitude

Thank you.

Daniel P. Schmidt / 3 min read
A conversation with Archdiocese of Boston schools superintendent Thomas W. Carroll (Part 2 of 2)

The educational administrator talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about Catholic education, the importance of remaining faithful to its core mission of eternal salvation, and the educational and societal benefits of school choice.

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann / 2 min read
A conversation with Archdiocese of Boston schools superintendent Thomas W. Carroll (Part 1 of 2)

The educational administrator talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about Catholic education and identity, creating a community of learners and believers, and the challenge of raising money for its mission in the current culture.

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann / 2 min read
Again remembering Memorial, now a Nobel Peace Prize awardee

Levels of ambition, including philanthropic, the impossibility of a “New Man,” and the consequences of trying to create him.

Daniel P. Schmidt / 3 min read

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