Chuck Brunie: Free Market Champion, Investor Exemplar

What are more important to the health of an intellectual movement, writers and academics or investors and philanthropists? That thought occurred to me, when I was informed of the death of Chuck Brunie, the former longtime Chairman of the Board of the Manhattan Institute and the Chairman Emeritus of The American Spectator. Of course, an intellectual movement needs brains, but it also needs money — prudently spent money.