The political-science professor and leading postliberal thinker talks to Michael E. Hartmann more about “Moonlight” Graham, as well as “bounded philanthropy” and misanthropy, Madisonian pluralism and Tocquevillian association, and localism, including in giving.
The author of “Madisonian Nonprofit Law” talks to Michael E. Hartmann about effects of philanthropic LLCs on Madisonian nonprofit law and of a Madisonian nonprofit sector on political parties and politics; the tradeoffs in analyzing the interaction between nonprofits and politics and thinking about both the nationalization and commercialization of nonprofits; democracy and the “art of losing;” and democratically expressed backlash against elites, including philanthropic ones, and its risks to Madisonianism.
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.
