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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.
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 The Compensation Monster Devouring Cities The real battle over public workers’ pay is happening in city halls, not state capitols.   New York 9/11/11 Ten years after the terror attacks, the city is safer, thanks to the NYPD—but the threat remains.   Great Courses, Great Profits A teaching company gives the public what the academy no longer supplies: a curriculum in the monuments of human thought.  The Mortgage Hangover A Bronx boom-and-bust story shows why the nation hasn’t yet recovered from the financial crisis.   1 Million Dead in 30 Seconds In an increasingly urbanized world, earthquakes threaten unprepared cities with mass destruction.   Nathan Glazer’s Warning Social policy often does more harm than good, says one of the last of the original neocons.  Crime and the Great Recession Jobs have fled, lawbreaking hasn’t risen—and criminologists are scratching their heads.  California’s Water Wars Environmentalist efforts to save the delta smelt threaten to create a new dust bowl.     A Solution for Gotham’s Reading Woes E. D. Hirsch’s Core Knowledge program shows real results in the city. When Heroes Become Bureaucrats Why cops and firefighters stood by as a man drowned in San Francisco Bay Pension Propaganda Don’t believe the public-sector unions when they say that worker pensions are modest.  Oh, to be in England
 Austerity in the U.K. Britain discovers that shrinking government is a lot harder than expanding it. |
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