The Philanthropy Racket
Philanthropy is how the global elite cast themselves as do-gooders — the people destroying the world are posing as its saviors.
Chris Lehmann is editor-in-chief at Baffler and the author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream (Melville House, 2016). A former managing editor of In These Times, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post and Slate, among other publications.
Philanthropy is how the global elite cast themselves as do-gooders — the people destroying the world are posing as its saviors.