In her new book, In Defence of Philanthropy, Beth Breeze takes aim at the habitual pose of the philanthropy critic as brave and lonely truth-teller. The director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent, Breeze argues that overzealous critiques of philanthropy have proliferated to the point that debates have become “one-sided.” The “generalized cynicism” about philanthropists she observes in social media and on op-ed pages receives “little pushback.” Given this…

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