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Independent analysis of and commentary about philanthropy and giving Co-edited by William A. Schambra, Daniel P. Schmidt, and Michael E. Hartmann

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Joel Kotkin

A conversation with symposium contributor Joel Kotkin

Michael E. Hartmann

The author and commentator talks to Michael E. Hartmann about his article in the “Conservatism and the Future of Tax-Incentivized Big Philanthropy” symposium.

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27Feb2023

Revisiting contemporary philanthropy as part of a First Estate “clerisy”

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann

Newly out in paperback, Joel Kotkin’s book on the coming “neo-feudalism”—comparing current class conditions to those of the Middle Ages—correctly characterizes the current status and a current role of foundations.

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13Jan2023

Thoughts on, or applicable to, philanthropy from books reviewed by The Giving Review in 2020 (Part 2 of 2)

The GR Editors

A year-end collection of interesting and insightful passages.

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18Dec2020

Fred Siegel’s The Crisis of Liberalism shows how its “clerisy” has now come to fully trump evidence with ideology

Daniel P. Schmidt

Collection of essays from Manhattan Institute senior fellow, once a man of the left, lays out a century’s worth of instances in which elite experts—and, in at least one case, philanthropy—have failed the citizenry.

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26Oct2020

Contemporary philanthropy as part of a First Estate “clerisy”

Daniel P. Schmidt & Michael E. Hartmann

Joel Kotkin’s new book on the coming “neo-feudalism”—comparing current class conditions to those of the Middle Ages—correctly characterizes the current status and a current role of foundations.

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6Jul2020
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