In the first half of the twenty-first century, giving to family and community foundations alone will be ten times in todays dollars what it was throughout the entire twentieth century. Yet despite tremendous innovation in the social sector, philanthropys natural state is under-performance. Not sin[...]

Thomas Bernhard is widely considered to be one of the most important German playwrights in the post-war era. Highly acclaimed, he has written over twenty plays and novels and gained a reputation as one of Austria's most controversial authors. He wrote Heldenplatz in 1988 as a response to the fiftiet[...]