A Modest Proposal: Should the Ford Foundation Be Decentralized?

One of the most appealing themes of student radicals is that in the modern world the individual finds himself all but helpless against the power of enormous institutions, be they government agencies, private corporations, or multiversities. It now is possible that this complaint will also hold true for semipublic institutions, such as the foundations which have at their disposal millions upon millions of dollars.

Until recently this was hardly a problem, since the worst that might be s...