conservatism

An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful thinking about grantmaking and giving.

Republican lawmakers are committed to nonprofit reform in 2025. That could spell challenges for the field.

The editor of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute journal talks to Michael E. Hartmann about establishment and conservative philanthropy, including in the context of populism’s ascendance.

The editor of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute journal talks to Michael E. Hartmann about recent developments in, the current states of, and potential future directions for conservatism and philanthropy, including conservative philanthropy in particular.

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

The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy’s reaction to popular discontent with elites, contemplates the populist future of conservatism, and considers some potential implications of that future for unpopular philanthropy.

The analyst and author talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about philanthropy as an elite institution that should be as “on the defensive” against populist discontent as much as all of the other such institutions that have so ill-exercised their authority.

The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Adam Meyerson Distinguished Fellow in Philanthropic Excellence talks to Michael E. Hartmann about her article and some of the others in the “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy” symposium.

On February 9, The Giving Review ran a piece authored by Julius Krein, “What Do Conservative Donors Want?,” that alleges that the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) “recently had to hold an all-hands meeting to discuss whether it was still a conservative institution.”  The statement is laughably false. No such meeting has happened, or could happen,… Continue reading AEI: alleged meeting never took place

And in philanthropy?

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

Casting a wide net.

The Washington Post columnist and author of The Working-Class Republican talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about Reagan properly understood and how he can help conservatives and conservative philanthropy consider current challenges in facing the future.

The Washington Post columnist and author of The Working-Class Republican talks to Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about conservative philanthropy and its attitude toward populism, scotch neat, and It’s a Wonderful Life.

And wondering about the red cocktail umbrella.

Post-election 1992: “The largest problem of all is that conservatism has utterly lost its focus, its sense of purpose, its mission. It has become too comfortable and too complacent.”

Briefly overviewing some potential grantmaking options.

From D.C.-centricity, to an emphasis on the local, humble, and practical.

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

The author and former theology professor speaks with Daniel P. Schmidt and Michael E. Hartmann about rock-climbing, conservatism, and opinion journals and magazines.

Briefly overviewing some potential grantmaking options.

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