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Today’s wisdom from Isaiah Berlin: “Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.”

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All is not lost.

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Today’s wisdom from Isaiah Berlin: “Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.”

Every time you insist there is no certain truth to be discovered, I will answer: “What makes you so certain of that?”

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Today's wisdom from Isaiah Berlin: “Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”

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Jack Salmon is the director of policy research at Philanthropy Roundtable and a Freedom Conservatism signatory.Salmon’s research and commentary have been featured in a variety of outlets, including The Hill, Business Insider, RealClearPolicy, and National Review.Prior to joining the Roundtable, he served as program manager and researcher at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he oversaw policy relating to budgets, taxation, institutions, and economic growth.In a recent research paper, Salmon warned that proposals to increase the minimum payout required of charitable foundations would reduce their ability to build and sustain key institutions of civil society.“These foundations play a crucial role in supporting a wide range of social and environmental initiatives, fostering innovation, and addressing pressing societal challenges,” he wrote.The current annual minimum distribution of 5% of the fair-market value of philanthropic assets represents “a carefully considered balance between two competing interests,” Salmon wrote.On the one hand, it’s essential that foundations use their resources to serve public needs. On the other, their leaders ought to be able to plan for the future and ensure the long-term effectiveness of their work.“The United States has a vibrant philanthropic landscape,” he argued, but ill-considered public policies could “stifle” it.You’ll find links to Jack’s paper and other #FreeCon commentaries here: https://lnkd.in/eYenDM_R

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Today’s wisdom from Isaiah Berlin: “To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men.”