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Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism Is Transforming American Business

Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism Is Transforming American Business

Faith and Fortune profiles companies and people who represent the best of corporate America.

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The Psychedelic Renaissance

Could Psychedelics Heal the World?

Drug trips, under controlled conditions, break down the barriers between people and bring users closer to nature

8 min readJan 25, 2020

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Like electric cars and clean energy, e-cigarettes improve on an old, dirty technology

Yet they are opposed by so-called public interest groups

4 min readDec 21, 2023

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Like electric cars and clean energy, e-cigarettes improve on an old, dirty technology

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Gratitude

For Thanksgiving, here are 23 things for which I’m grateful in 2023. Some are drawn from the world of philanthropy–so please read on if you…

3 min readNov 22, 2023

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Nonprofit Chronicles

Raj Shah’s $1.7 million salary is a bit much.

Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation are generous with other people’s money.

7 min readOct 11, 2023

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Raj Shah’s $1.7 million salary is a bit much.

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The Psychedelic Renaissance

How Yale researchers helped create the ketamine industry — and their own psychedelics startup.

The clinical trial that set the stage for today’s fast-growing ketamine industry runs just three pages long and involved only eight…

7 min readSep 21, 2023

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How Yale researchers helped create the ketamine industry — and their own psychedelics startup.

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The Great Vape Debate

Truth or (unintended) consequences

The crusade against vaping will do more harm than good.

4 min readJul 23, 2023

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Truth or (unintended) consequences

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The Psychedelic Renaissance

The psychedelics movement has come a long way in a hurry

A report from MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 conference.

7 min readJun 27, 2023

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Nonprofit Chronicles

Philanthropy, capitalism and racial justice

Will the Movement for Black Lives improve the material well-being of Black Americans? Will big banks?

6 min readJun 2, 2023

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Philanthropy, capitalism and racial justice

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The Psychedelic Renaissance

Why I invested in Tactogen

MDMA is a wonderful medicine. This startup company wants to make it even better.

6 min readMay 2, 2023

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The Great Vape Debate

Can we learn to love Big Tobacco?

Philip Morris International, Altria and BAT claim that they want to help end smoking by selling less harmful nicotine products.

11 min readApr 13, 2023

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Can we learn to love Big Tobacco?

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Marc Gunther

19.6K Followers

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Reporting on psychedelics, tobacco, philanthropy, animal welfare, etc. Ex-Fortune. Words in The Guardian, NYTimes, WPost, Vox. Baseball fan. Runner.

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