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From City Journal’s Symposium Series

Collections on race, crime, and the economy

Symposium: An Economic Agenda for the Next President

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

Symposium: A New Anticrime Agenda

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

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Universities Face a Reckoning

Analysis and reporting on the crisis in higher education

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Hans Zeiger Public Universities Can Save the Humanities

America’s land-grant schools offer a natural home for a liberal arts revival.

Mar 06 2024
Paul du Quenoy Is Merit Really Making a Comeback?

Standardized tests are back for admissions at Yale, but it may not be for the right reasons.

Mar 04 2024
Liel Leibovitz Georgetown’s Extremist Turn

The university has hired a professor who spread a conspiracy theory about Israel on-air and is now hosting the academic organization that defended him.

Feb 23 2024
Christopher F. Rufo Harvard’s Plagiarism Problem Multiplies

Another administrator at the Ivy League university appears to have plagiarized her dissertation.

Feb 22 2024
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America’s Cultural Revolution:
How the Radical Left Conquered Everything


New Book by Christopher F. Rufo

When Race Trumps Merit


The new book by Heather Mac Donald

The Spotlight

Martin Kulldorff Harvard Tramples the Truth

When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn’t the university’s guiding principle.

Mar 11 2024
John O. McGinnis Lawyers for Radical Change

The legal profession, once a guardian of republican government, is now a force for social upheaval.

James Piereson The Big Fix

Looking back at college basketball’s first great scandal, which dethroned the game from its place atop New York sports.

Oct 01 2017
Theodore Dalrymple The Cheapest Insult

The reductio ad Hitlerum: a refuge of tired minds

Andrey Mir The Medium Is the Menace

Ubiquitous digital media offer potent rewards—but at the price of eroding our sensory and social capacities.

Fred Bauer We Are More Than Our Data

Preserving individual liberty amid the digital revolution will require carving out a space for the distinctively human.

Sep 01 2023
Robert Henderson The Cadre in the Code

How artificial intelligence could supplement and reinforce our emerging thought police

Bruno Maçães Art and Artificial Intelligence

Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun explores the continuum between creativity and technology.

Stephen Eide The American Party System: A Lament

Progressives’ effort to weaken parties has harmed our democracy.

Heather Mac Donald The Great Abdication

In California, public officials now favor the lawless and deviant over the law-abiding and hardworking.

Howard Husock Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes”

What Charles Loring Brace’s philanthropy can teach us today

Roger Scruton What Ever Happened to Reason?

Behind the attack on rationality lurks another and more virulent hostility: the hostility to the culture and the curriculum that we have inherited from the Enlightenment.