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With Friends Like These, the Poor Don’t Need Enemies

…a regimen of capitalist material advance and neoliberal culture use philanthropy as a prophylactic against the more radical and statist economic interventions the author would like to see. “Much of…

Parenting the Privileged

…your check and graduate you. Money can buy anything you want.” The legacy of great wealth also has the potential to overwhelm young people’s search for identity, a search that…

Spring 2015 – Briefly Noted

…the Mediterranean in less-than-seaworthy vessels. After a drowning of 366 people off the coast of Lampedusa in 2013, Italy set up a specialized search and rescue operation called Mare Nostrum….

Tiny Ships to the Stars

…in the 1990s called Clementine. Later, he spent nearly a decade as director of NASA’s Ames Research Center, the agency’s outpost in Silicon Valley, supporting small-satellite and other programs, and…

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Books: Givers Can Do Better

…insulting. Is the author suggesting that many philanthropists are kidding themselves about doing good? Are they accomplishing nothing with their gifts? Not quite.  What Putnam-Walkerly is suggesting is that lots…

About the Author

…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….

About the Author

…and policy research for a trade association where she oversaw all state and federal policy research. She has also covered a wide-range of policy analysis for advocacy groups and the financial industry….

Fall 2017 – Battle Creek Alchemy

…foundation approval of the author’s final text. Markel would not agree to that, and therefore never saw the diaries. Instead he used as a research base a biography of Will…

Universities and Identity Politics

…tones of cultural authority. But college campuses are the deep well from which that authority flows. If nearly every other sector of society now speaks in hushed deference to the…

The War against Breast Cancer

…revenue went to research; today BCRF allocates 89 percent of revenue to research, garnering a top rating from Charity Navigator. Its founding vision of funding innovative research continues to resonate…