Essays/Blogs
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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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with Virgil Storr and Chris Coyne at PhilanthropyDaily Writing recently in the Wall Street Journal (“How Big Government Co-Opted Charities,” July 17, 2013) James Piereson aptly suggests that one of the fundamental questions to consider in the coming fight over the charitable deduction is whether it is possible to wean the not-for-profit sector from its dependence on the
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Philanthropy Daily Now Philanthropy Daily® » Civil society needs healthy pluralism of philanthropy
Lenore T Ealy 