The Scrooges of 2025
City Journal • 12/23/2025 – 12/26/2025
Summary
The Scrooges of 2025 have spent billions on philanthropy but have ignored the disastrous effects their efforts have had on poor and working-class people. Unlike Dickens’s famous miser, their actions have not benefited those in need.
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