Sep 17, 2019
In episode 56 we take a deep dive into the issue of "tainted donations". Is some money "bad", and if so can it ever be turned to good uses through philanthropy? Including:
Related Links
-Ronan Farrow's New Yorker piece on Jeffrey Epstein and MIT MEdia Lab
-CAF Giving Thought Blog, “When Should Charities Say No To Donations?”
-CAF Giving Thought Blog “The Wages of Sin: Doing good with bad money”
-The “Criticisms of Philanthropy” chapter from my book Public Good by Private Means
-Matthew Ross’s HistPhil article about the history of donations to Notre Dame
-Ben Soskis’s Atlantic article “Dirty Money: from Rockefeller to Koch”
-G.K. Chesterton's attack on J.D. Rockefeller: "Gifts of the Millionaire"
-Beth Breeze’s Guardian article “Should charities accept contrition cash from dubious donors?”
-John Picton’s Conversation article “Sackler donations: why museums and galleries can be stuck with gifts – even if they don’t want them”