balance

The author of “Madisonian Nonprofit Law” talks to Michael E. Hartmann about James Madison, Alexis de Tocqueville, checks and balances in the context of the nonprofit sector in general, some of the different ways in which nonprofits engage with and can check government, and the role of philanthropy in particular in counterbalancing government power, or not.

The Northwestern Pritzker School of Law professor talks to Michael E. Hartmann about the “clerisy” and how to think about the relationship of the wealthy and their philanthropy to it.

The first in a series of five republished articles to mark our fifth anniversary.

Healthy cooperation and equally healthy collisions between fully functioning capitalism, government, and civil society.