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Published in The Freeman Online, August 28, 2013 American public discourse is characterized today by predictions of decline and fall that offer little hope to the rising generations. From economic, social, and political critics, there is ample commentary on America’s self-destructive path. Such prognoses have given birth to a mini-industry of Tocqueville studies, with partisans
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One watch set right will do to set many by. —American folk saying It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the
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@ Philanthropy Daily June 29, 2012 A story this week in the Washington Times by Emily Esfahani Smith provides a good overview of “happiness psychologist” Jonathan Haidt’s new book, The Righteous Mind. A few years ago, the Philanthropic Enterprise held a colloquium on the implications of the new positive psychology research for our understanding of philanthropy, which resulted in this volume
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In 2000, I had the opportunity to get acquainted with Richard Cornuelle, a leading figure in the early libertarian movement who became one of our country’s most insightful analysts of the philanthropic sector. Dick had long believed that the intellectual case for the free society was still most vulnerable where civil society intersected with the
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Conversations on Philanthropy: Emerging Questions on Liberality and Social Thought is a journal in English, and publishes original articles, essays, and book reviews addressing considerations of the role of philanthropy in a free society. Our aim is to promote inquiry and reflection on the importance of liberality—both in the sense of generosity and of the character
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Review of Fred Inglis, History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood Published in Books and Culture, Dec/Jan 2012 In An Autobiography, published in 1939 on the eve of World War II, English philosopher R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943) reflected on the historical legacy of World War I. “[A] war of unprece-dented ferocity,” wrote Collingwood, “closed in
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Philanthropy Daily Now Philanthropy Daily® » Civil society needs healthy pluralism of philanthropy
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Review of Peter Frumkin, Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy2007 Published in Azure, Spring 5767/2007, no. 28 “The desire for human betterment,” observed grants economist Kenneth Boulding, “is part of the genetic potential of the human species.” It is thus remarkable, if we take at face value the centrality to the human experience of giving as
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