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What Next?

An Idea Whose Time Has More Than Come Karl Zinsmeister’s book comes at precisely the right moment. We’ve just had a contentious and vexing presidential election in which the severe…

Damaging Solutions in Search of a Problem

…has produced a concomitant increase in philanthropy. And, as David Callahan, founder of Inside Philanthropy and author of The Givers and several other books, points out, we have seen nothing…

The Calculating Philanthropy of Silicon Valley

…instance, SiliconValley luminaries like Larry Ellison, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and others have put up billions tofund “life-extension” research. “Death makes me very angry,” Ellison has said….

With Friends Like These, the Poor Don’t Need Enemies

…a regimen of capitalist material advance and neoliberal culture use philanthropy as a prophylactic against the more radical and statist economic interventions the author would like to see. “Much of…

DoNation preview

DoNation

…of the research agrees. But in our country giving is a vital cultural phenomenon that needs to be understood. So we have methodically waded through heaps of studies and drawn…

Spartan Donors

…upon their first deployment,” explains Col. Mike Meese, head of the academy’s department of social sciences. Academy research indicates that West Point’s cultural immersion programs “significantly increase overall cadet cross-cultural…

President’s Note

…Schadlow later went on to write the official national-security strategy of the Trump administration. “How Philanthropy Fuels American Success.” Adapted from Karl Zinsmeister’s introduction to his magisterial Almanac of American…

No Giver Is Safe

…magazine chirped excitedly that there are now more than 50,000 “dues-paying members” of the Democratic Socialists of America scattered across our fruited plain. The author is one of today’s most…

From Promising to Proven

…as excellent ones. How does the overall mix stack up? Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) offers the definitive research on this subject. It zeroes in on hard…

Privacy as a Philanthropic Pillar preview

Privacy as a Philanthropic Pillar

…Donor privacy is something worth defending against opponents, in the most vigorous ways. The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Karl Zinsmeister is author of The Almanac of American Philanthropy, and What Comes Next? How private…