Entries for November 28, 2006

Let's start with Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism: America's Charity Divide; Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters, by Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University's Maxwell School. Brooks, a political scientist who grew up in Seattle in what he says was a liberal home, examined the data and came up with a conclusion that he found unlikely enough that he went back and checked the data again: Conservatives give more to charity than liberals. As he explains, it's a little more complicated than that. Fact 1 is that Americans give a lot to charity: