COVID-19, the National Economy, and Mental Health
Diseases of despair are on the rise. Since 2018, rates of depression have quadrupled and rates of anxiety have tripled.
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President-elect Joe Biden s healthcare agenda: building on the ACA, value-based care, and bringing down drug prices
Biden is likely to mount an intensified federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, enlisting the Defense Production Act to compel companies to produce large quantities of tests and personal protective equipment as well as supporting ongoing deregulation around telehealth.
Art Becomes Orthodox
Museums and culture groups are pressed to pledge allegiance to progressive doctrine.
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.
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.
Saving Free Speech
Can intellectual humility and listening with empathy open closed minds and preserve honest debate?
President’s Note: What Lies Ahead
Roundtable President Elise Westhoff shares important news about the future of Philanthropy magazine.
Addressing Health-Care Worker Burnout
Family foundations around the country meet the acute needs of health workers during the pandemic.
Interview with Maajid Nawaz
An activist talks liberalism, racism, and grants with strings attached.
Enemies of Innovation
Thomas Sowell explains why even triumphant charter schools spark resistance.
Trump, Covid and Reason
A new statement by scientists explains how to live with the virus.
Interview with Nadine Strossen
What to do about hate speech.
Getting Back to Work: Strategies to Build the Ecosystem
Watch the most recent Economic Opportunity webinar led by Philanthropy Roundtable’s Tony Mayer.
The Exchange
Microschooling | Donor leadership on covid-19 | Ideas on race, policing, crime | Black female millionaire donor | Heterodoxy grows | RBG and donor intent | Smashing culture
Webinar Part 1: Diseases of Despair
Based on recent CDC numbers, COVID has tripled and quadrupled our anxiety and depression levels and doubled the number of people seriously considering suicide. The most likely cause? The economic downturn.
Webinar Part 2: Civil Society Solutions to Diseases of Despair
Deaths of despair doubled over the past 15 years, and if left unchecked are predicted to double again in the next decade. COVID has only increased rates at which people are overdosing and contemplating suicide.
New director at Center for Political Thought and Leadership seeks to drive civic education mission forward
The Center for Political Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University has named Lucian Spataro as its new interim director to lead the center’s mission of enhancing civic education in schools across the country.
COVID-19, the National Economy, and Mental Health
Key takeaways from a discussion of the effects of COVID-19 on the national economy and its relation to rising rates of diseases and deaths of despair.
Is Action Civics an Advance in Civic Education?
This study examines the origins, nature, and educational effects of a movement in civic education that goes by a number of names—”New Civics,” “Action Civics,” “Civic Engagement,” and “Project-Based Civics.”
Bring Civics Back to the Classroom
We can rise to the challenge and meet this moment with the same innovation and resolve that have characterized the American experiment for the past nearly 250 years