There are now courses at 100 plus campuses that teach students about the nonprofit universe, mainly, as noted in The Wall Street Journal, “through managerial training, accounting and study of nonprofit policy.”

Leslie Lenkowsy, an expert in the area, believes “the best undergraduate courses engage students in raising money, not just receiving it.”

True enough, but the most critical lesson to impart to students is the need for philanthropists to better evaluate the effect on a free society of specific gifts. As usual Aristotle went to the core of the matter; in Ethics he stressed that in dispensing money one must pay heed “to whom to give it” and “for what purpose.”

Perhaps then less such money would be doled out to fund causes deleterious to democracies.