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Critics of effective altruist billionaires need to reckon with the hard political realities around changing inequality

Plus, Muslim American giving to help the poor totaled $1.8 billion last year, and philanthropy can fight book bans that threaten students nationwide (opinion)

Do donors have too much influence over universities? “I scarcely know anybody who works in the academy these days who isn’t concerned about donors’ influence,” Professor Denise Réaume told me resignedly. “It’s almost unheard of for someone to make a big money gift that is not targeted in some way. Nobody calls up a university and says, “Here’s $20 million, now go do good stuff with it”. For this University of Toronto (UT) law professor as well as for Vincent Wong, a Toronto l...