From David Stid’s essay today, titled ‘First, Do No Harm!’ Five Steps Philanthropy Should Take to Bolster Liberal Democracy :

Across a range of issues — e.g., criminal justice, education, the environment, immigration, political economy, racial justice, etc. — philanthropy underwrites efforts to influence public policy. Unfortunately, it does so in ways that have come to accelerate polarization and produce a multi-faceted tragedy of the commons in our public life. By funding uncompromising advocates and activists, philanthropists on both the left and right weaken the ability of our political parties to build the broad and stable majorities capable of governing a diverse and continental republic. While most Americans’ views cluster around the political center , on issue after issue, p

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