acceleration

The writer and analyst talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the shift of trust from institutions to individuals and what it demands of public intellectuals, whether the new institutions of the American transition can or should aspire to the neutrality of the old, and why philanthropy tends to prefer established institutions and newly favors technological “acceleration” over the harder work of human and social “formation.”

The writer and analyst talks to Michael E. Hartmann about America’s transition from one institutional order to another, philanthropy’s changing role in that transition, the emergence of new institutions focused on “acceleration” and “formation,” and a generational divide between the donors supporting legacy and newer organizations.