Peter Buffett's op-ed this summer in the New York Times pointed to the irony of the mega-wealthy cloaking themselves with the accoutrements of philanthropy and campaigning against social ills while wealth accumulation itself contributed to some of those very problems. Begging the question, is philanthropy tantamount to a PR campaign to keep the awful truth from oneself?
This controversial article was a gigantic wake-up call to the sometimes sleepy established philanthropic...