Current News

Howard Fuller Has Hope for the Next Generation of Education Reformers

Oct 05, 2020

Howard Fuller talks about how school choice empowers minorities, the problem of polarization, and why it’s time to rethink the entire education system.

How a New Fund Helps Parents Teach Their Children

Aug 26, 2020

A recently launched experiment supports parents in educating their own kids—during distance learning or otherwise.

Replacing Violence with Community

Aug 18, 2020

Thirty years ago, when Father Greg Boyle was a pastor of Dolores Mission Church in Boyle Heights, he became troubled by the prevalence of gang violence in his neighborhood.

CURRENT ISSUE Fall 2020

Saving Free Speech

Can intellectual humility and listening with empathy open closed minds and preserve honest debate?

Universities and Identity Politics

Are college campuses training young Americans in balkanization and grievance politics—and thus functioning as the fountainheads of national division? Philanthropy asked experts and donors. Here’s what they said.

Art Becomes Orthodox

Museums and culture groups are pressed to pledge allegiance to progressive doctrine.

Addressing Health-Care Worker Burnout

Family foundations around the country meet the acute needs of health workers during the pandemic.

The Exchange

Smashing Culture

Zealots acted to delete images, history, and ideas they deigned intolerable. And each desecration left behind an ugliness that was far more than just visual.