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Led to Equality
April 2018
Ashley May
A new history reveals the wealthy philanthropists behind suffrage and other feminist advances
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Supporting Better Choices
April 2018
Ryan Streeter
The best efforts against poverty reinforce what people are doing right
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Short Donation Spans
January 2018
Joanne Florino
Giving while you live can improve society long after you're gone
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Teach a Man to Teach a Man to Fish
October 2017
Andrew Evans
One doctor’s shortcut to supplying Africa with surgeons
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Battle Creek Alchemy
October 2017
Ashley May
Two philanthropic brothers achieved their radically different legacies in reactive opposition to each other
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Damaging Solutions in Search of a Problem
July 2017
John Steele Gordon
An anecdotal call for crimping America's distinctive private philanthropy
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Business, Love, and Service
April 2017
Noemie Emery
Three human impulses led to history’s number-one charitable donation
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Preservation and Prosperity
April 2017
Daniel Fishman
What could property rights do for Indian reservations?
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Males Beyond the Pale
January 2017
David Bass
An invisible army of able-bodied men are not working, and getting away with it.
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Minor Characters
October 2016
Monica Klem
The NEA and NEH have minimal roles in U.S. arts and letters.
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Improving Political Diversity on Campus
October 2016
Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill
Can philanthropy help mend our one-party universities?
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The Quiet Man Behind the Computer Revolution
July 2016
Adam Keiper
Gordon Moore’s tech vision changed modern times. He wants his giving to change life 10,000 years from now.
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A Watchdog with Only One Eye
July 2016
Scott Walter
"The history she describes is not hidden, and the people she writes about are not radicals.” A review of author Jane Mayer’s book Dark Money: This very selective “exposé” distorts reality.
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Are College Sports Out of Control?
April 2016
Leslie Lenkowsky
Gilbert Gaul argues in his new book, Billion-Dollar Ball, that athletic programs at a number of major universities have become so lucrative that it should be questioned whether they deserve to be considered part of higher education and entitled to various benefits.
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Redefining Usury
April 2016
John Steele Gordon
How a self-interested banker helped millions of people prosper. In this book review we learn about Jacob Fugger, who lived from 1459 to 1525, and the ways he powerfully nudged the modern world into existence.