In No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy, Linsey McGoey, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex, excoriates what she sees as the historical illiteracy of many of today’s philanthropists. Armed withRead more…
Toward a new gospel of wealth
As I begin my third year at the Ford Foundation’s helm, I am reminded of how privileged I am—and we all are—to serve this institution. For my colleagues and me, these past 15 months have entailed both deep introspection aboutRead more…
Are You Rich? No Need to Apologize
A ripple of controversy in the world of philanthrocapitalism recently caught my attention. Anand Giridharadas gave a talk at the Aspen Institute in which, in the friendliest possible way, he called on the capitalist plutocrats who pay for such gatherings to reflect onRead more…
Social Justice
“Social Justice” is a code phrase of the left, which believes that such justice can only be achieved by the recognition that capitalism and the economic inequality it produces must be replaced by a “classless” society wherein all differences in wealth andRead more…
The Gospel of God as the Key to Wealth Inequity
On the verge of teenage-hood I remember pouring over a book of cartoons that dealt with the great North-South divide, politics of power, and wealth discrepancies. Brazil, in particular, featured high in my injustice-angst as there was cartoon after cartoonRead more…
Humans are not Commodities
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