Opinion

Remarks at the Council on Foundations annual conference a decade ago.

Carefully crafted, profoundly misguided.

Sector-bending has always been a symptom of a larger intellectual problem: utopianism.

Are management training and statistical measurement really the keys to solving our deepest social problems?

Pillars of establishment philanthropy—including GuideStar and Charity Navigator—should be subject to increased scrutiny because of what went on at SPLC and their reactions to it.

Restoring a more patient philanthropy means backing away from the obsession with immediate policy and political outcomes.

The story of conservative policy philanthropy from Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump.

A documentary that details the fight over the stewardship of a $25-billion art collection raises enduring questions of donor intent.

Conservative philanthropy appears to be on the threshold of a new phase in its history.

The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences (IES) released new findings on the District of Columbia school-choice program. The “evaluation showed that students who received a voucher did 7.3 percentage points worse on math than students who didn’t, while reading scores were not significantly different for the two groups,” according to Frederick M.… Continue reading In looking for truth, breezes over bushes

American philanthropy is thoroughly, fundamentally elitist. In the Trump era, it will be tempted to pursue political activity that will only make that fact painfully apparent to the American people…