Michael Joyce's Mission: Using Philanthropy to Wage a War of Ideas

It was typical of Michael S. Joyce, who died last month at age 63, to focus one of his last major speeches about conservative philanthropy not on abstract ideologies or arcane public-policy concepts, but rather on his memories of a sultry evening in the late summer of 1995, when he appeared in the pulpit of Holy Redeemer Institutional Church of God in Christ, Milwaukee's largest African-American congregation.

He was there as the chief executive of the Lynde and Harry Bradley

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