Today Puzzles Travel Health Fashion Fitness Nutrition Restaurants Cuisine Home Galleries Books Weddings Family Greater Milw. Hardly anyone knows it but the center of the conservative political universe is a regal old mansion near the corner of Prospect and Juneau on Milwaukee's lower east side. Those recipients have tended to be conservative with an emphasis on revolutionary. The left has dozens of money-giving foundations.
Conservatives have only a few.
The Bradley Foundation is the biggest. But the real power has been with the guy who has been running the place, Michael Joyce. Joyce decided a few years ago that American education will flounder so long as government has a monopoly on running it. A few years later, school choice arrived and it showed up first in Milwaukee. Joyce believed strongly that welfare programs that encouraged dependence were destructive.