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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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When administrators act, they constitute as well as manage. But what is being constituted—Leviathans or self-governing communities of relationships in compound republics? —Vincent Ostrom The development of the Common Core, the model school curriculum standards that have been adopted by 45 states, offers us a glimpse into the dark underbelly of the democratic drift toward
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Questioning the Common Core @ Philanthropy Daily
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My essay, Exit, Voice, and Bourbon, for The Freeman (April 2013).
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@Philanthropy Daily Nobel laureate and public choice economist James M. Buchanan passed away on Wednesday at the age of 93. Buchanan’s work has long been a quiet background influence on the efforts of The Philanthropic Enterprise to understand from a classical liberal perspective the institutional and ethical dynamics of philanthropy in a free society. This influence
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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 2007 I had the privilege of co-leading a small operational component of Operation Freedoms Ring (OFR), a non-critical path Shadow Operation to Golden Phoenix. Operation Golden Phoenix 2007 was a collaborative training exercise led by Marine Aircraft Group (MAG)-46/U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, elements of the California National Guard, and civil authorities. There were two major
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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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Lenore T Ealy 