ILF POST

By Charles Lindblom Gifts from corporations and the wealthy nourish many orchestras, operas, theaters, art galleries, museums, research institutions, schools, universities colleges, think tanks, hospitals, and political organizations such as lobbies, interest groups, parties, and campaigns. We encourage the gifts, as, for example, through tax benefits for qualifying contributors. Givers can afford the gifts [...]

By Ralph Keyes While on a long drive I found myself listening to an interview with R & B singer Bettye LaVette that I might not have heard otherwise. Lavette is a great talker. Much of what the 61 year-old soul singer talked about was a decades-long interlude when her career was [...]

By Mary Catherine Bateson.Hillary Clinton’s comments on Dr. King and President Johnson have set off a fire storm. What commentators have failed to realize is that they reflect both Clinton’s strengths and her weaknesses, as well as the real difference between her and Barack Obama. “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson [...]

By Linc Bloomfield Dipping into Christopher Hitchens’ outrageous but readable bestseller “God is Not Great” brings to mind two different but highly relevant instances of the sometimes toxic religion-politics connection.
Whoever planned the brutal death of Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto — Al Qaeda operative, home-grown terrorist, undercover agent of the Pakistani intelligence services — the [...]