In the wake of his recent article “Think Tanks Have Defeated Democracy,” the economist and policy analyst talks to Michael E. Hartmann about populism and the role of tax-incentivized philanthropy in supporting think tanks, how best to consider reforming the nonprofit sector, and how artificial intelligence might radically reshape it.
Daniel J. Flynn’s forthcoming biography of Frank S. Meyer describes foundations’ roles in his life and work—and thus in the American conservatism, and America, he helped forge.
Conceptions of civil society among populist conservative writers and thinkers and in magazines and journals open to populist conservatism.
The second in a series of five republished articles to mark our fifth anniversary.
Daniel Schlozman’s and Sam Rosenfeld’s new book tells how wealthy givers, on both the left and the right, have played a part in weakening political parties, and thus also politics and policymaking, in America.
