May / June 2004

Magazine

• The New Consensus

  By Michael E. Hartmann

  I knew nothing of, like, the stock market—how it works, what it does,” Emily Suarez Del Real says. Nonetheless, the then-sophomore at Milwaukee’s Alexander Hamilton High School wrote…

• Frontiers of Science

  High risks, high rewards may best describe the private funding of scientific research. At The Philanthropy Roundtable’s last annual meeting, a panel of experienced funders discussed how their…

• Solutions for the Litigation Crisis

  By Jerry J. McCoy

  Bernard Marcus thinks big. As co-founder of Home Depot with Arthur Blank, he helped invent “big box” retailing. The chain, from which both men are now retired, began…

• The Vision Thing

  By William A. Schambra

  Good news for conservative philanthropists! Liberal scholars and nonprofit groups are doting on you. In particular, they’re praising the strategic effectiveness of your public policy grantmaking.The bad news?…

• Life With Baby

  By Brendan Conway

  John Gottman, a Seattle-based psychologist, likes to compare parenting—especially the first few months of it—to piloting a jet plane. Both require sensitivity to subtle cues. Both improve with…

• Glitzy Texts, Dull Students

  By Adam Schaeffer

  Whether they’re covering physics or lyric poetry, the textbooks handed to K-12 school children are receiving failing grades from scholars on the left, right, and center. The books…

• Philanthropic Freedom and Philanthropic Abuses

  By Adam Meyerson

  The purpose of the philanthropic foundation is to achieve the charitable objectives of the donor or donors who establish it. The primary enforcer of this purpose is the…

• Measuring Success in Generations

  By Martin A. Davis Jr.

  For economists, one pinnacle stands above all others—the Nobel Prize. And no philanthropic group has done more to assist top thinkers in their climb toward this prize than…

• Philanthropy’s Energy Czar

  By George Weigel

  A Time for Reflection: An Autobiography by William E. Simon, with John Caher Regnery, 2003 352 pp., $35Businessmen, politicians, and philanthropists alike often admit the truth of economist…

• Maimonides and Me

  By Maxwell King

  Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity aand Why It Is Necessary to Give by Julie Salamon Workman Publishing, 2003 192 pp., $18.95Some years ago, after a big promotion…

• Briefly Noted

  Economists think a lot about how governments can correct the failures of profit-seeking markets and how markets can correct the failures of sluggish government,” writes Sebastian Mallaby, a…

• Call Things by Their Right Names

  Robert Hall famously admonished people to “call things by their right names.” So, let me call William A. Schambra’ s “review” of my book The Insider’s Guide to…

• Pew’s Future

  I read with interest the discussion in Philanthropy’s Briefly Noted section (“A Public Switch,” March/ April) about The Pew Charitable Trusts’ recent change to a public charity. As…