Reviews

  • Can Civil Society Save Us?

    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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  • 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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