realclearbooks.com @RealClearBooks links to @TheFrankForum’s @FilocomoFrank review of @EABeauregard’s Anti-Civilization: The Collapse of Society & the Case for the Common Good in @GivingReview today … Ordinary people seek “stability, predictability, and order within the context of a system that is broadly fair,” Beauregard writes in the book. Broadly, Filocomo writes, Anti-Civilization’s message is “clearly indicative of the erosion of an old conservative paradigm, and the emergence of a new one.” 1/2

thegivingreview.com/gen-z-an… Full review also accessible here … 2/2

artofassociation.substack.co… “[P]hilanthropy has inadvertently contributed to the problems buffeting U.S. democracy,” @AEI’s Daniel Stid writes. “I have written elsewhere about how philanthropic funding for policy advocacy and activism has fueled polarization. But I am talking about something different here – other patterns of philanthropy getting in its own way. “By emphasizing the institutions of democracy over the civic culture on which they depend, by obsessing over top-down decline instead of fostering renewal from the bottom-up, and by mobilizing citizens behind our agendas rather than enabling them to develop their own, we have inadvertently reinforced the very problems we need to solve,” he continues. “What philanthropy is uniquely positioned to do is underwrite the renewal of our civic culture and the infrastructure that supports it. There is thus a looming opportunity cost in diverting philanthropic resources from these civic purposes toward de facto political ends, as we have done now for more than a decade.”

thegivingreview.com/gen-z-an… In @GivingReview, @TheFrankForum’s @FilocomoFrank reviews @EABeauregard’s Anti-Civilization: The Collapse of Society & the Case for the Common Good … Ordinary people seek “stability, predictability, and order within the context of a system that is broadly fair,” Beauregard writes in the book. Broadly, Filocomo writes, Anti-Civilization’s message is “clearly indicative of the erosion of an old conservative paradigm, and the emergence of a new one.”

thegivingreview.com/the-ford… As the @FordFoundation’s new grantmaking strategy shifts its central focus to democracy, @GivingReview co-editor @mhartmannmke considers what the change might mean—and what the foundation isn't saying about why it made it … “A more-interesting and -helpful insight on the shift’s explanation might be to leave what remains to be seen to the future and wonder about what just plain isn’t seen as of this ‘moment,’ but must have occurred in Ford’s consideration and preparation of it.” After all, Ford says its new strategy was informed by extensive internal deliberations, outside reviews, and critical perspectives. “What did these private conversations, reviews, and critical perspectives conclude was ‘wrong,’ or maybe even just wrong-headed, about the old strategy, in the previous ‘moment’? What has Ford learned from it?” And as Ford promises broader coalitions and greater openness to disagreement, another question arises: “Just how pluralist the new, humbler, more democracy-protecting Ford’s promised democratic pluralism will actually be” does remain to be seen.

thegivingreview.com/in-the-a… @GivingReview co-editor @WilliamSchambra sees opportunity for nonprofit sector after midterms to confront waste, fraud, and abuse … “If such self-examination has been postponed because it might seem to give aid and comfort to the enemy,” he writes, “that excuse will have been removed.”