Vancouver “The Birth of a New American Aristocracy” is not exactly a catchy title for a piece in the current issue of The Atlantic, although it won’t surprise anyone when I say that it certainly caught my eye. It’s one of those long-winded, multi-page things that about twenty of us around the country might read …
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Was Roseanne in the Wilderness Too Long?
New Orleans It is beyond dispute that Roseanne Barr has gone off the deep end with a string of racist and anti-Semitic tweets along with a tight embrace of a startling array of conspiracy theories and conspiracy promoters. Did Trump and Twitter finally enable us to see the real Roseanne that has been lurking at …
The Rich are Wheeling and Dealing for Themselves at Private Foundations
New Orleans The Wall Street Journal and its reporter, Andrea Fuller, provided a public service for all of us by reviewing the publicly available tax filings of thousands of private foundations. Their subject was the willful lack of compliance with the almost fifty-year prohibition against self-dealing. Self-dealing occurs when private foundations do business with …