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Jack Salmon

A conversation with the Mercatus Center’s Jack Salmon (Part 2 of 2)

Michael E. Hartmann

The research fellow talks about Alexis de Tocqueville, whether “civil society” and the “nonprofit sector” are the same thing, and what his new Philanthropy Roundtable research on government funding of nonprofit entities has to say both to their leaders and to policymakers, if anything.

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3Sep2025
Jack Salmon

A conversation with the Mercatus Center’s Jack Salmon (Part 1 of 2)

Michael E. Hartmann

The research fellow talks about his new Philanthropy Roundtable report on government funding of nonprofit entities and the ways in which various forms of government benefits can compromise their independence—as well as the range of conditions government can and cannot, and should and shouldn’t, attach to its funding of them.

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2Sep2025
Arnold Kling at American Enterprise Institute in 2019 (YouTube)

A conversation with economist Arnold Kling (Part 2 of 2)

Michael E. Hartmann

The polymath and Substack writer talks to Michael E. Hartmann about libertarian and progressive views of the roles of government, for-profit business, and nonprofit charity.

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11Jun2024

Bringing balance, not blurring, to the coming clarification of conservatism

The GR Editors

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

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17Jan2020
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