In August, the San Francisco’s District Attorney’s office’s chief of staff sent a memo to the MacArthur Foundation that declared, “Our office will not be used as sharecroppers to a foundation’s vision of criminal justice reform.”| Compact
A brief excerpt.| the Giving Review
Casey Michel’s Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy around the World explores the growing problem of foreign funding of U.S. nonprofits in order to exert political influence. Addressing this issue might be the best initial opportunity for cross-ideological, bipartisan cooperation toward meaningful nonprofit-sector reform—perhaps leading to broader, bolder efforts against Big Philanthropy and its increasingly stretched definitions of charity...| American Affairs Journal
The power of big corporations and other large private interests has attracted more attention from within a conservatism that’s refining or redefining itself, occasionally contentiously. For example, Compact magazine cofounder and editor Sohrab Ahmari explores private tyranny and countervailing power in his new book Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power Crushed American Liberty—and What to Do…| American Affairs Journal
Big Philanthropy is now on the defensive, however. Increasingly aggressive critiques of it often, though not always, focus on alleged violations of the Grand Bargain. These critiques are cross-ideological. Many progressives and activists think the bargain’s terms have come to allow too much latitude for anti-democratic oligarchs, for example. Meanwhile, some populist conservatives...| American Affairs Journal
In the framework of the “parallel polis” for which N. S. Lyons called at the National Conservatism conference in Brussels, there already exists a latent one in America’s central-city neighborhoods.| the Giving Review
What I Told National Conservatives in Brussels| theupheaval.substack.com
Gone are the days when corporate giving was confined to Little League, food banks, and other traditional causes. On today’s corporate websites, politically charged initiatives to end social or economic “inequity” or advance racial or environmental “justice” have largely replaced references to noncontroversial charities serving the common good. From the 1960s until a decade or…| American Affairs Journal