Other Writing
“Want Better Government? Philanthropy Can (And Should!) Help,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2026.
“Who Can Rescue Democracy? Local Funders Have the Edge” The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 4, 2025.
“We Will Miss Philanthropic Freedom When It’s Gone,” AEIdeas, October 20, 2025.
“‘First, Do No Harm!’ Five Steps Philanthropy Should Take to Bolster Liberal Democracy,” 100 Ideas in 100 Days, NYU Law Democracy Project, October 16, 2025.
“The New Era for Nonprofits,” American Enterprise, August 28, 2025.
“The Power to Tax Foundations is the Power to Destroy Them,” AEIdeas, June 4, 2025.
“Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Association,” Vital City, March 2025.
“Funding the Resistance is Not a Winning Strategy. Here’s What Is,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 7, 2024.
“Taking Democracy for Granted: Philanthropy, Polarization, and the Need for Responsible Pluralism,” SNF Agora Institute Report, Johns Hopkins University, July 2024.
“Charitable Donors Operating in the Shadows Push Our Parties to the Extremes,” Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 2, 2024.
“Leading to Govern,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Summer 2024.
“A Madisonian Party System,” National Affairs, Fall 2023
“Finally, Moderate Republicans Will Have Their Say,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Fall 2023.
“A Time for Statesmanship,” National Affairs, Summer 2021, pp. 139-152.
“We Depend on Well-Led and Well-Managed Grantees,” Funding Performance: How Great Donors Invest in Grantee Success, Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community, 2021, pp. 31-33.
“We Need More Christian Partisanship, Not Less,” Breaking Ground, October 23, 2020.
“The Futures of Congress: Scenarios for the U.S. 2050 Project,” March 15, 2019, working paper for the U.S. 2050 Project, Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
“Civil Society and the Foundations of Democratic Citizenship,” August 16, 2018, post for the “Civil Society in the 21st Century” series, Stanford Social Innovation Review.
“Reflections on the APSA Congressional Fellowship from the Vantage Point of a Non-Academic Career,” January 2018, PS: Political Science and Politics, pp. 137-139.
“Streamlining a Foundation Initiative’s Grant Practices,” with Jillian Misrack Galbete, November 7, 2017, Stanford Social Innovation Review.
“Two Pathways for Congressional Reform,” in William F. Connelly, Jr., et al. eds., Is Congress Broken? The Virtues and Defects of Partisanship and Gridlock (Washington, DC, Brookings Institution Press, 2017), pp. 11-36.
“What Does It Take to Implement Evidence-Based Practices? A Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Shows the Way,” with Alex Neuhoff, Laura Burkhauser, and Bradley Seeman, November 2013, Bridgespan Group white paper.
“Pay for Success is Not a Panacea,” April 2013, Community Development Investment Review, pp. 13-18.
“How is Investing in ‘What Works’ Working? Early Feedback from Nonprofits Participating in the Social Innovation Fund,” with Jeff Bradach, Jolie Glaser, and Stephanie Sud, November 2012, Bridgespan Group white paper.
“Dismantling the Social Services Industrial Complex,” April 25, 2012, Washington Post.
“Five Ways to Navigate the Fiscal Crisis,” with Willa Seldon, Winter 2012, Stanford Social Innovation Review, pp. 36-41.
“Strongly Led, Under-Managed: How Can Visionary Nonprofits Make the Transition to Stronger Leadership,” with Jeff Bradach, January 2009, Strategy and Leadership, pp. 35-40.
The President as Statesman: Woodrow Wilson and the Constitution (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1998).