The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong―And How to Fix It, by Amy Schiller. Melville House (2023)

This book evaluates the history of philanthropy from the ideas of St. Augustine to the work of Lebron James. The author argues that philanthropy’s contemporary tendency to maintain obscene inequality and reduce every cause to dehumanizing technocratic terms is unacceptable, while maintaining an optimism about the soul and potential of philanthropy in principle.