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President’s Note: What Lies Ahead
For the last three decades, The Philanthropy Roundtable has provided thought-provoking content through our quarterly magazine, Philanthropy. Like you, I read the pages with great interest, and the stories inspired my…
Art Becomes Orthodox
Last fall a colleague came into my office with a story. She had spoken with the artistic director of an American symphony known for its interest in forgotten works and…
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. Peter Wood President, National Association…
Saving Free Speech
This summer—just as saying something controversial (or not saying something mandatory) got numerous charitable leaders excoriated, several academic leaders dumped, a host of editors and writers ousted, and articles and…
Addressing Health-Care Worker Burnout
Forty-four percent of the U.S. working population of doctors were experiencing burnout in 2017, according to the latest numbers from a national, longitudinal, triennial study. The consequences of this are…
Interview with Maajid Nawaz
Maajid Nawaz is an advocate for democracy and justice, especially in Muslim communities in the West. A former Islamist who spent years in prison, he now speaks and writes in…
Interview with Nadine Strossen
Nadine Strossen is no stranger to controversy. For 18 years she served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and now lectures at law schools on the Constitution and…
Enemies of Innovation
The acclaimed economist and public intellectual Thomas Sowell has penned a short but forceful defense of charter schooling. The first two chapters (and 60 pages of data in the appendix!) make…
Smashing Culture
In addition to destroying images of dead Confederates, protestors this summer toppled a bust of George Washington in D.C., tore down sculptures of Washington and Thomas Jefferson in Portland, and tried…
The Exchange
MicroschoolingDonor leadership on covid-19Ideas on race, policing, crimeBlack female millionaire donorHeterodoxy growsRBG and donor intentSmashing culture AS A NEW SCHOOL YEAR opened with pandemic still in the air, families across the…