Victory!
…ideas during the Cold War can serve as a useful starting point for thinking about how to build and sustain programs designed to counter the ideas espoused and spread by…
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The Art of Public-Policy Philanthropy: The Battle of Ideas
…the Tikvah Fund, founded by his late business partner Zalman Bernstein—have included many unusual investments in ideas: supporting think tanks, newspapers, magazines, scholars, and students. By the end of 2014…
Interview with Nadine Strossen
…ideas in public life. Philanthropy: Why don’t bans on unwanted speech work? Strossen: Censorship is both ineffective and counterproductive. Ineffective because there’s no way we can completely eliminate all of…
The Center for American Culture and Ideas: Elevating the American Intellectual Experience through the Arts
…and visual arts, and culture in the context of American ideas. We’re interested in the arts and its relationship to philosophy, democracy and a system of free enterprise that allows…
Universities and Identity Politics
…liberal education would be denied the refuge of the Simple Clear Answer. The great ideas conflict at every turn. Plato sounds awfully convincing. So does Aristotle. Both can’t be right….
Saving Free Speech
…We need to focus on less superficial changes. We need ideas—like charter schools—that are effective, that have proven to succeed. But that requires rigorous competition among ideas. That’s why, for…
On U.S. Campuses, Free Inquiry Is Taking a Beating
…article. Evaluate it. What do you think of the research?” Who do you think finds lots of flaws in that research study? Coffee drinkers! But not just any coffee drinkers….
The Calculating Philanthropy of Silicon Valley
…It’s a nonprofit that provides ideas, research, contacts, andnetworking events for tech workers in Silicon Valley who are open to conservative, libertarian, religious, andother perspectives that are now frowned upon…
Ideas Still Have Consequences and Philanthropy: 9/11 Twenty Years Later
…of us froze is because they had truly internalized the common slogan that “ideas have consequences.” We worked at a nonprofit that educates Americans about U.S. foreign policy. They understood,…
The Educators
…practice “The power of ideas is the greatest power,” Bruce Kovner likes to say. But investing in ideas can offer uncertain returns. Ideas germinate and travel from one mind to…
Innovation for the Real World
…of industrial research laboratories at places like IBM and Bell Labs has “moved the basic center of gravity for research back to the universities.” But if academic research is to…
Elise Westhoff Featured in Alliance Magazine on the State of U.S. Philanthropy
In a wide-ranging interview, Philanthropy Roundtable President and CEO Elise Westhoff recently spoke with Alliance Magazine Editor Charles Keidan about the current direction of U.S. philanthropy, Westhoff’s vision for the…