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Benjamin Soskis

Benjamin Soskis is a research associate at the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute and the co-editor of HistPhil.

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The Apple Carnegie Library embodies recent developments in philanthropy that should trouble us: the uncritical valorization of philanthro-capitalism and the privatization of public goods and public spaces.
Benjamin Soskis

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