Linsey McGoey is professor of sociology at the University of Essex.

01.19.2023

• Linsey McGoey

Elite Universities Gave Us Effective Altruism, the Dumbest Idea of the Century

A cocktail of elite arrogance and naivete across the Anglophone world, combined with the support of billionaires like Sam Bankman-Fried, produced effective altruism. The result has been reactionary, often racist intellectual defenses of inequality.

11.10.2015

• Linsey McGoey

The Philanthropy Hustle

Global North or South, private foundations are part of the problem, not the solution.