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<title><![CDATA[Karl Zinsmeister - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30564.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Karl Zinsmeister]]></description><category domain="30564">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How Politicized Philanthropy Is Corrupting Charity]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/17/how_politicized_philanthropy_is_corrupting_charity_153727.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Traditionally, charitable giving has been defended by conservatives, who admired its ability to effectively solve problems without government coercion or taxpayer funds. The political left was where one encountered hostility toward private social action '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' which sometimes lessens...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Moonshot Won't Stop Cancer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-moonshot-wont-stop-cancer-723b2057?st=RQZNgN</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The best approach to conquering the illness is through small-scale, adaptive, individualized initiatives.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Conservatism Needed a Trump Reset]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/conservatism-needed-a-trump-reset-dysfunctional-institutions-reform-upheaval-7e941d37?st=crTWEh</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many institutions have been too corrupted by the left to be worth preserving in their current form.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Power, Peace, and Knowing When To Shift Gears]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/29/power_peace_knowing_when_to_shift_gears_152713.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our Disruptor-in-Chief has grabbed the bloated federal corpus in his teeth and given it a good hard shake for 100 days. Many Americans have welcomed this forceful reassessment.
I count myself among them. My service as chief domestic policy adviser in the George W. Bush administration...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trust the Wisdom of Regular People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/03/07/zinsmeister_dont_fear_populism_we_can_trust_regular_people_to_make_critical_decisions.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday on the RCP Podcast, Tom Bevan interviewed author Karl Zinsmeister about his new book, "Backbone: Maverick Essays in Praise of Middle America: Why American Populism Should Be Welcomed, Not Feared."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s Populist Rebellion Shouldn&rsquo;t Alarm Us]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/01/22/todays_populist_rebellion_shouldnt_alarm_us_152230.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Establishment voices are expressing alarm these days about the rise of political populism. All around the globe, workaday citizens are offering new resistance to authorities. In the U.S., voters just loosed a genuine bull into the china shop of the ruling class. Those who have...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Drug Temperance Realistic?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/04/03/is_drug_temperance_realistic_150741.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The governor of Oregon has just signed a bill rolling back the state'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s 2020 decriminalization of drugs. Battered by soaring substance abuse, overdose deaths, and accompanying street chaos since the liberalization, Oregonians made clear they were going to act against drugs through a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The GOP Is the Unlettered Party. And That&rsquo;s a Good Thing.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/09/the_gop_is_the_unlettered_party_and_thats_a_good_thing_148697.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the coming weeks, a new band of Republicans will announce themselves as candidates in the next presidential race. The frontrunners will be scrappy populists. Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most successful center-right politicians are not only champions of the common man but energetic opponents of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Compound Fractures of Identity Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/fractures-of-identity-politics</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Characterizing people by skin color or sexual practice violates core principles of a free society and worsens human divisions.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Totalitarian Tendencies of the Woke]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/09/18/the_totalitarian_tendencies_of_the_woke.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the best-selling books in America right now, Ibram Kendi'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How to Be an Antiracist,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' calls for some'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' astonishingly autocratic policies. It would establish a federal Department'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' of Anti-racism with veto power over any local, state, or federal'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' policies considered...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Private Donations and National Defense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/07/11/private_donations_and_national_defense_143661.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the last places you might expect to see American philanthropy in action is in supporting U.S. service members as they do their jobs overseas. An unusual and highly effective charity created by an American social entrepreneur, however, has become a favorite partner of our Special...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Great Gifts of Health From U.S. Donors]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/23/great_gifts_of_health_from_us_donors_143511.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For generations, deadly epidemics were a regular occurrence in America. The disease feared perhaps more than any other was yellow fever. Every few years, outbreaks would explode across seaboard regions, killing thousands at random. People were so frightened that a third or more of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No Giver Is Safe: How the Left Is Poisoning Philanthropy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/24/no_giver_is_safe_how_the_left_is_poisoning_philanthropy_142222.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In our current socialist moment, a veritable race is underway among journalists, academics, and politicians on the left to outdo each other in thundering against business enterprise and personal wealth '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and the private charitable action to solve public problems that flows from the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Give Thanks for the Humanitarian Habits of Religious People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/27/give_thanks_for_the_humanitarian_habits_of_religious_people_141827.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A majority of all Americans now tell pollsters that efforts to help the poor, comfort the needy, and otherwise serve the common good would be just as prevalent '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'if there were no people of faith or religious organizations to do them.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Sorry, folks. As a factual matter, that is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Online Monopoly + Liberal Orthodoxy = Tech Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/20/online_monopoly__liberal_orthodoxy__tech_trouble_141304.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When was the last time you remember the attorneys general of 48 states plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico standing together to launch a major joint probe? I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t recall it ever happening in my lifetime. Yet on Sept. 9 a deep mix of liberals and conservatives, Southerners and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Assault on Generosity and Voluntary Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/06/01/the_assault_on_generosity_and_voluntary_action_140452.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Around the turn of the last century, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie paid to build 1,689 libraries across the United States. Many are still in use, celebrated as monumental works of philanthropy. They should be seen as monuments to the failure of public policy. The United States...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Tech Worldview Affects Free-Speech Battles]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/03/how_the_tech_worldview_affects_free-speech_battles_138234.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Back in the early days of the computer era, the common speculation on the psychology of our tech mandarins was that they would be libertarians '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' devoted to freedom both in economics and social life. That has not proven true. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Silicon Valley'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s ideology is pro-market. But it...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Philanthropy Is Worth Defending in the Tax Code]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/10/18/why_philanthropy_is_worth_defending_in_the_tax_code__135285.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Reduced charitable giving by middle-class families'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'on a scale of tens of billions of dollars'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'could be an unintended consequence of a Republican tax reform plan that reduces itemizing of deductions.
That change would exacerbate other forces ranging from declining American...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Social Justice Relies on Private Action, Not Just Govt.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/02/22/social_justice_relies_on_private_action_not_just_govt_129737.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s an article of faith in some quarters today that government is the only reliable guarantor of human rights. This, however, overlooks the powerful role of privately funded civil society in protecting individuals. It unwisely and unsafely ignores generations of cautionary examples...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Defending the Kochs: A History of Big Money &amp; Social Change]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/03/13/defending_the_kochs_a_history_of_big_money__social_change_125917.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Karl Zinsmeister</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There is a hue and cry from certain quarters today against private spending that aims to reform the politics, economics, or morals of our nation. But the truth is, such spending has been common right through American history. Indeed, big donors have fueled many of our proudest national...]]></description>
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