Editors’ Note: Jeffrey Berry responds to a recent article by Robert Kuttner in the American Prospect, “The Left’s Fragile Foundations,” by arguing that, in many ways, those foundations are more secure than contemporary alarms would suggest. We live in such a polarized and partisan era, that it is easy to overlook the distinctive political role … Continue reading
Editors’ Note: Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry have co-edited a symposium on the topic of foundations as interest groups for the October issue of Interest Groups & Advocacy. Here, Goss and Berry preview their contributions to the symposium and introduce two other articles from this October issue which HistPhil will be spotlighting in the next days. With the … Continue reading
Editors’ Note: This post by Kristin A. Goss and Jeffrey M. Berry contributes to the live forum on political science and philanthropy, guest-edited by Sarah Reckhow and Delphia Shanks-Booth. Continuing the forum’s leading discussion of elite philanthropy and populism in the United States, the authors preview their ongoing research of foundations’ responses to new White House initiatives. The neo-populist wave that … Continue reading
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