Sunday May 19th, 2013
ALL THINGS CHARITABLE
There are so many great articles in the July/August issue of the Atlantic… MORE >> that I could pretty much blog on it alone for the rest of year.
When Wisconsin’s governor Scott Walker turned back the effort to recall him by winning 53 percent of the vote this month, his victory did more than ensure that the state’s cutbacks in government-worker wages, benefits, and collective-bargaining rights would remain in place.… MORE >>
California is in the midst of a massive budget shortfall — $16 billion to be exact. Fifteen big parks around the state are going to be closed.… MORE >>
. . . [I]t has seemed to me less a choice than a necessity to oppose the boomer enterprise with its false standards and its incomplete accounting, and to espouse the cause of stable, restorative, locally adapted economies of mostly family-sized farms, ranches, shops, and trades.… MORE >>
Last Monday the Federal Reserve gave a measure of the erosion of middle-class wealth during the “great recession”: between 2007 and 2010, the median net worth of households declined a staggering 39 percent.… MORE >>
The lengths to which parents will go in order to have their children experience “diversity” never cease to amaze me. Whether it involves moving to a more diverse neighborhood (say, staying in the city over moving to the suburbs) or sending them to a school or even college that has a broader rainbow of kids, these parents are so enamored with diversity (only the racial kind) they seem strangely willing to sacrifice so much else at its altar.… MORE >>
Elinor Ostrom, professor of political science at Indiana University and one of the few non-economists and the only woman ever to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, died this Tuesday.… MORE >>
If ignorance is bliss, do we associate doomsaying with intelligence? Is that why our nation’s academics so enjoy predicting decline? Or maybe they believe the general public won’t listen to them unless they’re forecasting the end of the world.… MORE >>
On May 16, thirteen New York State agencies released virtually identical proposed regulations to guide entities that do business with the State on new limitations on executive compensation and administrative expense.… MORE >>
When we think of philanthropy and higher education, we most often think of donors funding new buildings and stadiums, faculty positions, or scholarships for students. And yet what’s at the core of academic life is not buildings and stadiums but certain ideas and debates about the good for human beings and political communities.… MORE >>
Last night I attended a fundraiser for the Washington Conservatory of Music (WCM), sponsored and…
Adam Grant is the wunderkind of business professors, a Harvard and University of Michigan graduate…
In their op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on May 14 (subscription required), Manhattan Institute…
