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Empire of Excess.
E. J. McMahon and Josh Barro
Empire of Excess
New York’s top earners will soon be paying more in state taxes than ever.
Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource.
Steven Malanga
Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource
Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?
No State Left Behind.
Marcus A. Winters
No State Left Behind
How to get states to improve their tests
Invasion of the European Economists.
Guy Sorman
Invasion of the European Economists
A generation of free-market exiles has made the U.S. campus its home.
The Ramparts I Watched.
Sol Stern
The Ramparts I Watched
Our storied radical magazine did transform the nation—for the worse.
Chicago's Real Crime Story.
Heather Mac Donald
Chicago’s Real Crime Story
Why decades of community organizing haven’t stemmed the city’s youth violence
Coming Soon
Demography and Dynamism.
A Not-Lost Generation.
Laura Vanderkam
A Not-Lost Generation
The current downturn won’t spell doom for America’s young workers.
Eminent Domain as Central Planning.
Nicole Gelinas
Eminent Domain as Central Planning
Wielding creative definitions of blight, New York runs roughshod over property rights and uproots viable neighborhoods.
The Velvet Philosophical Revolution.
André Glucksmann
The Velvet Philosophical Revolution
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the battle for political freedom goes on.
A Man Alone.
Andrew Klavan
A Man Alone
Jesse Lee Peterson versus the “black experience”
In Defense of Political Anonymity.
Bradley A. Smith
In Defense of Political Anonymity
Campaign-finance disclosure rules have encouraged harassment of donors and coarsened public debate.
Tomorrow's Wars.
Victor Davis Hanson
Tomorrow’s Wars
Enormous, massively destructive engagements may again be on the horizon.
Soundings.
Troy Senik
The Surge Comes to Salinas
A plan to apply counterinsurgency doctrine to gang violence
Peter Sloterdijk
The Grasping Hand
The modern democratic state pillages its productive citizens.
Steven Malanga
As Goes New Jersey . . .
New governor Chris Christie could have national influence.
Claire Berlinski
The Wrong Ban
Switzerland’s misguided prohibition of minarets
Paulette Miniter
The Lessons of Kumon
A Japanese tutoring service gains converts in New York and nationwide.
Conrad Kiechel
The Nonprofit That Saved Central Park
Thirty years after its founding, the Conservancy inspires other cities.
James Panero
Strike the Set
A militant union smothers New York theater.
Berin Szoka
Moore’s Law Trumps D.C.’s
What empowers the disabled is free enterprise, not regulation.
Larry Sand
We’re All Right-Wing Bastards Now
—that is, if the NEA’s logic is to be believed.
CJ Online.
Books and Culture.
Guy Sorman
The Paradox of Jewish Capitalists
Are the beneficiaries of free markets also its most ardent opponents?
5 February 2010
Leslie S. Lebl
Sharia’s Dominion
Two books argue that repression, cruelty, and fear are central to Islam.
29 January 2010
Andrew J. Coulson
Tough Love
How Ben Chavis works education wonders
28 January 2010
Eye on the News.
Andrew Klavan
Culture v. Reality
Can you spot the difference?
5 February 2010
Kay S. Hymowitz
Sex-Ed Ambiguities
The latest research raises more questions than it answers.
4 February 2010
Jay P. Greene
So Much for the Evidence
Obama’s results-oriented education rhetoric doesn’t come close to reality.
3 February 2010
CJ Classics.
ILLUSTRATION BY ARNOLD ROTH John McWhorter
Toward a Usable Black History
It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
Summer 2001
After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street--and WashingtonAfter the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington
by Nicole Gelinas
Follow the online discussion about the book between Nicole Gelinas and Ira Stoll, editor and founder of FutureOfCapitalism.com.
CJ Podcasts.
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Fred Siegel and Joel Kotkin
America in 2050
5 February 2010
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Paul Howard
The Union Rules
19 January 2010
Podcast available
Heather Mac Donald
Chicago’s Real Crime Story
19 January 2010
New York's Tomorrow.
CJ Authors.
Theodore Dalrymple
The New Criterion
| Ayn Rand: engineer of souls
Nicole Gelinas
C-Span
| After the Fall
Steven Malanga
RealClearMarkets
| Could California Really Default?
Departments.
Oh, to be in England
The Galbraith Revival.
Theodore Dalrymple
The Galbraith Revival
The aristocratic economist’s big-government ideas are back in vogue.
Diarist
Michael Anton
Chef X’s Brigades