MANOCAUSE

Shakespeare might have written on the problem of hungry kids: To give or not to give, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of indifference, Or to take arms against a sea of childhood hunger And by opposing it, end it. Imagine your child or grandchild not having enough to eat, especially when other children do. The idea of hungry kids is heartbreakin…

“I must say that I have seen Americans make great and real sacrifices to the public welfare; and have noticed a hundred instances in which they hardly ever failed to lend faithful support to one another.” — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America Set aside a few seconds to try to imagine what the United States of America would be like without a healthy, vibrant nonprofit sector. Your first rea…

I remember when my folks retired to Florida, back in the 1980s, we saw a used-car lot out on Route 1 with a big sign that advertised: “Buy Here! Pay Here!” We thought it was a joke. Isn’t that the way everybody buys things? We couldn’t figure out what the sign was offering that was so special. But the sign was up for as long as my parents lived there. (We later found out that “Buy Here! Pay Here!”…