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WebApr 26, 2024 · Podcasts. City Journal ’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson. In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language. 10 Blocks podcast. Arthur Koestler’s life and work embodied the ...
On Race and Crime, a Counterfactual Narrative | City Journal
WebApr 25, 2023 · Every news outlet that covered the shooting led with the race of Yarl and of Lester. Yarl was inevitably identified as a “Black” teenager and Lester as a “white” homeowner. The Kansas City district attorney validated the race narrative. The shooting had a “racial component,” the prosecutor said, without offering evidence.
Heather Mac Donald | City Journal
WebHeather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and race ...
Struggling Communities and Their Prospects | City Journal
WebApr 8, 2022 · Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities, edited by James J. Connolly, Dagney G. Faulk, and Emily J. Wornell (Cornell University Press, 288 pp., $31.95) Most writing about cities focuses on large metropolises, but small cities often face the greatest challenges. Forty-six million Americans live in small municipalities—those between 20,000 and 200,000 people ...
Transit and the American City | City Journal
WebJun 4, 2023 · O n March 18, 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic began to rage in New York, and two days after the city shuttered its schools and four days before the city forbade white-collar workers from coming to their offices, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the regional subway, bus, and commuter-rail system, warned investors in its nearly $44 billion in municipal debt ...
Minor, in a Major Key | City Journal
WebNov 26, 2023 · T wo centuries before Saint George Floyd, there was the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, another black martyr to white supremacy. Such, at least, is the premise of Chevalier, a movie directed by Stephen Williams, released in early 2023 in the United States to a credulous press.Chevalier purports to tell the story of Joseph Bologne, an eighteenth-century swordsman, violinist, and composer, who ...
Contributors | City Journal
WebJohn A. Paulson Fellow, Manhattan Institute Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics, Brown University GlennLoury
Harvard’s Double Standard on Free Speech | City Journal
WebOct 29, 2023 · In this year’s FIRE report, Harvard’s speech climate didn’t merely rank dead last among those of the 248 participating colleges. It was also the first school that FIRE has given an “Abysmal” rating for its speech climate, scoring it zero on the 100-point scale (even that was a generous upgrade, as its actual composite score was -10).
How to Be an Anti-Intellectual - City Journal
WebOct 27, 2019 · How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi (One World, 320 pp., $27.00). I n 2016, Ibram X. Kendi became the youngest person ever to win the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His surprise bestseller, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas, cast him in his role as an activist-historian, ambitiously attempting to make 600 years of racial history digestible in 500 pages.
Stories and Data - City Journal
WebJun 14, 2020 · The brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers has sparked protests and riots around the United States. We have witnessed humanity at its finest and at its ugliest. Citizens of faraway nations have expressed solidarity with black Americans; police officers have marched alongside protesters; protesters have defended businesses against looting […]
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