Opinion: Conservatives Give More Than Liberals

President Barack Obama’s recent call to “a new era of responsibility” is one that conservatives have already responded to, says Arthur C. Brooks in an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Brooks cites studies over the past several years as evidence that those on the political right are more charitable than those on the left, a pattern that he says increased in 2008. Furthermore, he says that conservatives also decrease their giving less than liberals do during times of economic distress.

To read more about Mr. Brooks’s views on the topic, see The Chronicle’s profile of him. You can also see the Chronicle study he refers to in his article.

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