Open a newspaper—or, more likely, click on a Facebook article on your phone—and there will be a story telling you that income inequality is at the root of America’s problems: 0.1% of the US population is worth almost as much as the bottom 90%; CEO-to-worker pay...
Adrian Bejan is a rebel with a cause and a good job. He’s a cheerful and weird engineering professor at Duke University who wants us all to be free thinkers, to question convention and authority, and to connect the dots across topics. He himself has tried to do just...
The majority of philanthropic giving has always primarily come from the rich, given that they have most of the money. As inequality has risen in the US over the last several decades, the share of charitable giving coming from the wealthy has grown, too, worrying some...