Martin Luther King’s legacy for liberal education
Today we commemorate the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his leadership of the civil rights movement. We might remember him leading the Montgomery bus boycott, delivering his “I Have...
View ArticlePhilanthropic giving in action: the Atlas Network’s Ukraine Freedom Fund
So, you’ve decided to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia by donating to a nonprofit organization, but now you’re probably wondering exactly how your gift is being put to use. I know I always do....
View ArticleHow a Philadelphia nun transformed the tax code
You may have heard that saints can change the world . . . but what about the tax code? Well, it was not a “titan of industry” or a “greedy capitalist” who sat at the genesis of the charitable tax...
View ArticleDeath by disassociation: a review of Them by Senator Ben Sasse
We all know that smoking can kill you. It turns out, loneliness can too. In his 2018 book, Them: Why We Hate Each Other and How to Heal, Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse unpacks what he calls “our...
View ArticleThey are not the unremembered dead
This is surely the end of the beginning—but oh, what a long beginning it has been. Lee Edwards—the great historian and the Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation—was...
View ArticleTidings from Gates’s latest transfer of wealth
It can get stale, no?—Bill Gates sneezes, and an excited chorus of business reporters fill print and airwaves with breathless articles and analyses covering every angle of the achoo. But this story,...
View ArticleElon Musk, “philanthropist”
Those following the Elon Musk-Twitter saga found resolution last week in Musk’s “dad joke” tweet as he carried a sink into Twitter headquarters: “Let that sink in,” he quipped, sink in hand. After...
View ArticleLand access philanthropy in America
Land access is a hot topic in the hunting, fishing, and trapping community. Numerous nonprofits exist to promote it and numerous corporations in the outdoor industry have made it part of their mission...
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The peculiar evolution of Carnegie’s Libraries
Andrew Carnegie is well remembered as a gilded age industrialist who directed most of his wealth toward philanthropic causes, many of which still bear his name to this day. There is an endowed...
View ArticleMore Than a Name: Honoring a Memory
A few weeks ago, Ken Griffin’s $300 million contribution to Harvard University inspired an op-ed in Inside Philanthropy calling on universities to be more circumspect in allowing naming rights. Named...
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