Albert Keith Whitaker
Family Wealth Counseling
Philanthropic Advising
Private Trusteeship
(781) 392-2803
Albert Keith Whitaker is Research Fellow
at Boston College's Center on
Wealth and Philanthropy
and Director of Family Dynamics for Calibre
Advisory Services, Wachovia's family office. He
earned his BA in classics and philosophy and an MA in classics from Boston
University, and his PhD in Social Thought from the University of Chicago. He
also holds a certificate in National Security Studies from the University of
Kiel, Germany, and the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor designation from
the American Bankers Association.
Dr. Whitaker taught writing and philosophy
for many years at Boston College and Boston University. In addition, he worked
as an assistant to two Boston University Presidents, and currently serves as
Director and President of the Morton Foundation, a private operating foundation devoted
to education. He directs the Morton Seminar Program, which hosts seminars on moral education
through biography at colleges and universities throughout the country.
Dr. Whitaker has written two books on
Plato, and he has edited over twenty volumes of classical Greek, Latin, and
German texts in translation. Currently he is writing, with Paul
Schervish, Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, a book on
philosophy, spirituality, and philanthropy.
Selected Recent Publications
It
is Better to Receive and to Give (Philanthropy Magazine, July/August 2006)
Political
Wisdom: Review of Andrew Rich's Think
Tanks (Philanthropy Magazine,
May/June 2006)
Taking the Time to
Teach: Raising Children Amid Affluence
(Calibre Papers, 2006)
Not Only
Ideas: Friendship and Conservative
Philanthropy (National Review Online, March 9, 2006)
Leaving
a Legacy of Care: Less to Heirs and More
to Charity (Philanthropy Magazine,
January/February 2006)
Primer on
Investment Management for Private Foundations (Association of Small Foundations, 2006)
A Philanthropy of
Friendship: Giving as a Yearning to Connect (More than Money Magazine, 2005)
Citizen
Philanthropist: Review of David H. Smith's
Good Intentions (Philanthropy Magazine, 2005)
I Give Only to My
Friends (Dialogues on Civic Philanthropy, 2005)
Inside
the Family Office: Review
(Journal of Financial Planning, 2005)
Balancing
Private Happiness with Public Goods: Review of Kelin
Gersick's Generations of Giving
and Roy Williams and Vic Preisser's Philanthropy, Heirs &
Values (Philanthropy Magazine,
2005)
Philanthropy's
Indispensable Ally: Financial Security (Philanthropy Magazine, 2005)
Charity
and Prosperity: Review of Claire Gaudiani's
The Greater Good (Philanthropy Magazine, 2005)
All in
the Family: Review of Jay Hughes' Family
Wealth (Philanthropy Magazine,
2004)
Great American
Hustle: Review of Walter McDougall's Freedom
Just Around the Corner (Books and Culture, 2004)
Neoconservative
Nathaniel: Bioethics and the Birthmark
(Hawthorne in Salem, 2004)
California
Dreamin' in the Postmodern Academy (Journal of Education, 2004)
Critical Thinking
in the Tower Ivory (Academic Questions, 2003)
Teaching Lincoln (Partisan Review, 2003)
Course
Reasoning: The University of Chicago Dumps Western Civ (National
Review Online, 2002)
Old-School
Civics (National Review Online, 2002)
College
Carnival: Campus Life (National Review Online, 2002)
Leon Kass: Soul
Doctor (National Review Online, 2002)
Baleful Signs: Writing
in the Academy (Academic Questions, 2002)
Philosophy Publications
A Journey into Platonic Politics: Plato's Laws (University Press of America, 2004);
published reviews here,
here, and here.
The Bible
and Philosophy: Review of Leon Kass and Thomas
Pangle on Genesis (Claremont
Review of Books, 2003); published
response and reply
Review of Pierre Hadot's What is Ancient Philosophy? (Classical Bulletin, 2003)
Review of
Robert Lamberton's Plutarch (Classical Bulletin, 2002)
Plato's Parmenides (Focus Philosophical Library, 1996); published review
Other Published Squibs
Letter on
Science Education (University of Chicago Magazine, 2004)
Interview on Publishing (Boston
College, 2004)
A
Declaration of Independence: Reaffirming the Autonomy of the Third Branch
(lead researcher, Pioneer Institute,
2002)
Unpublished,
but Not Unloved, Opuscula
Hotter than Ever: The Wicker Man at 30 (2003)
Analogies: the SAT and the Universe (2002)