national review

An end-of-year collection of interesting and insightful passages.

Helped by Sam Tanenhaus’ new biography, insights into the benefits and drawbacks of for-profit versus nonprofit status, the balancing of control with the risks of “capture,” and the potential ramifications of more belief and trust in grantees who are going to do what they’re going to do, with or without any grant.

A reminder of a previous willingness to offer harsh conservative criticism of Big Philanthropy, and of that which gave rise to the critique.

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