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08
May
2023
Donors in Hell to Pay

Michael Lind’s new book about the working class and labor unions adds to his thought about what big givers are doing in both politics and philanthropy, whom they’re ignoring, and the results.


26
Apr
2023
Revisiting philanthropy in The Dictatorship of Woke Capital

Newly out in paperback, Stephen R. Soukup’s straightforward explanation of increasing “wokism” in the country’s for-profit sector necessarily includes the roles of some who are in the nonprofit sector, too.


14
Apr
2023
How a large foundation’s story is told

What non-official sources can tell us about the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.


19
Jan
2023
America and the Art of the Possible, and philanthropy

Part of post-frontier America’s failed “managerial elite.”


13
Jan
2023
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.


09
Jan
2023
Philanthropy and The Myth of Left and Right

Applying an analytical framework in another, related context.


19
Dec
2022

06
Dec
2022
Philanthropy in Control

Adam Rutherford’s new book about eugenics reminds us again of those progressive foundations that supported it—and that it’s long past time for a full and fair accounting of them for what they funded and fomented, and why.


03
Nov
2022

14
Oct
2022
Revisiting conservatism, philanthropy, and The Dying Citizen

A work to read in “the Wilderness.”