America is still the most charitable nation on earth. According to the Christian Science Monitor, a new book on the subject of charitable giving by Syracuse University economist Arthur Brooks also comes to the conclusion that "conservatives are better givers than liberals:"

This pattern is less about politics, he [Brooks] says, than about charity-linked lifestyles that are most common to people who call themselves conservatives: religious commitment, marriage and children, and entrepreneurship.

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