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13
Dec
2021
Visions, tradition, and Fiddler on the Roof’s Tevye

As Tim Stanley recalls it in his new book, Tevye says “You may ask, how did this tradition get started. I’ll tell you. I don’t know.” And another, unsettling question: without tradition, will there be anything left?


29
Nov
2021
1 > 10,000,000

Philanthropy and data, oxytocin and neurological unity, and love and charity in Arthur C. Brooks’ new book on the culture of contempt.


18
Oct
2021
Philanthropy, grassroots activism, and politics in In Defense of Populism

“[T]oday’s politics of the street,” according to political historian Donald T. Critchlow, “resembles that of the late Roman Republic, when oligarchs, such as Caesar, Sulla, and Catiline, organized mobs to serve their factional interests.”


04
Oct
2021
Conservatism, philanthropy, and The Dying Citizen

A work to read in “the Wilderness.”


27
Sep
2021
The Contrarian, his Fellows, and boldness

Philanthropic insights from Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Max Chafkin’s new biography of PayPal co-founder, Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and intellectual and political provocateur Peter Thiel.


20
Sep
2021
Some of Woke, Inc.’s reasoning could be an alarming “sleeping giant” for philanthropy

The cutting critique of and stance against corporate America’s adoption of an extreme social-justice agenda in Vivek Ramasamy’s new book could certainly, and perhaps should, be considered in the context of politicized charitable nonprofitdom, too.


15
Sep
2021
Robert Wuthnow’s Why Religion is Good for American Democracy and philanthropy

More receptivity to and respect for faith at the top of establishment grantmaking in the country might be beneficial, too.


10
Sep
2021
“Intermediate sanctions” against abuses of tax exemption, 25 years after their enactment

Looking back at a previous, successful attempt to reform the nonprofit sector, with the lawyer and author who literally wrote the book on it.


05
Aug
2021

15
Jul
2021
Richard T. Ely, actually non-eerily, lives

The economist and Social Gospel movement leader thought and taught that some philanthropy “could and must come from government coercion,” as Ronald J. Pestritto reminds us in his new book on the rise and legacy of progressivism.