For-Profit Public Good: A Contradiction in Terms (2000) 
Highlighting the perils of and "socialized" and “capitalized” medicine, this essay confronts the use for-profit hospitals to solve problems with the American health care system. Missing from both socialized and capitalized medicine is the “indispensable element,” trust. “Only the tradition of professionalism seems to get to the core of the problem: an ethical system based on private responsibility for the public good.”
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On the Emergence of Philanthropic Studies (Letter to Ellen) (2000) 
A brief discussion of the difficulties of passing on the core ideas and energy of those who developed philanthropy as an academic field of study.
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How Philanthropy Works (1995) 
“To study the philanthropic tradition is to trace the ‘social history of the moral imagination.’” This essay looks at the development of the philanthropic tradition by comparing it to the history of the Christian tradition. Particular attention is given to the elements of vision, shared values, organization, and resources.
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Philanthropy as a Right (1983) 
A quantitative outline of philanthropy in America and a qualitative sketch of some of the purposes it serves. Philanthropy is referred to here as “America’s most distinctive virtue,” serving purposes central to efforts to be a free, open, and democratic society.
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