Here are the collected posts for our Balkinization symposium on John Witt's new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon and Schuster, 2025).
1. Jack Balkin, Introduction to the Symposium
2. Michelle Adams, The Radical Fund Behind Brown
3. Risa Goluboff, Putting labor, civil rights, and civil liberties at the center of the American story
4. Willy Forbath, The Radical Fund – An Historian’s Brief For Social Democracy
5. David E. Bernstein, The Garland Fund and the Perils of Extremist Illiberalism
6. Jamal Greene, Warlord for a Day
7. David M. Schizer, Lessons for Nonprofits in The Radical Fund: The Perils of Self Dealing and the Promise of Incubating Novel Ideas
8. Benjamin Sachs, Law, Organizing (and Philanthropy) in the Radical Fund
9. David Pozen, Could the Garland Fund Upend America Today?
10. Mary L. Dudziak, What Money Can Do: John Witt’s The Radical Fund
11. Larry Kramer, Wherefore Art Thou Philanthropy
12. Laura Weinrib, The Power to Decide
13. Aziz Rana, An Elegy for the Actual Founding Generation
14. John Witt, Ten Arguments in The Radical Fund (Part I)
15. John Witt, Ten Arguments in The Radical Fund (Part II)