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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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December 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Bootstrap Transit
New York Post | 30 December 2008

Michael Totten
Kosovo’s Moderate Muslims
Wall Street Journal | 29 December 2008

Judith Miller
My 2009 Wish List—Bring Me Bin Laden
The Fox Forum | 22 December 2008

Judith Miller
Has Baghdad’s Shoe Tossing Reporter Lost His Footing?
The Fox Forum | 19 December 2008

Nicole Gelinas
MTA Madness: The Politicians Haven’t Helped
New York Post | 19 December 2008

Andrew Klavan
A Christmas Ghost Story in Five Chapters
The Advent Reunion | 19 December 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Playing Bridge
National Review | 18 December 2008

Guy Sorman
Crisis of the Left
Daily Times | 18 December 2008

Steven Malanga
Our Infrastructure Boondoggles to Nowhere
Real Clear Markets | 17 December 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Budget Blues: Facing Down Fear
New York Post | 16 December 2008

Nicole Gelinas
How to Do Public Works Right
The Wall Street Journal | 8 December 2008

Kay Hymowitz
An Enduring Crisis for the Black Family
Washington Post | 6 December 2008

Judith Miller
Where’s the Outrage? The Media Blame Capitalism for a Wal-Mart Worker’s Death
The Fox Forum | 5 December 2008

Kay Hymowitz
The Comforts of Home
Wall Street Journal | 5 December 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Devilish MTA Details
New York Post | 5 December 2008

Steven Malanga
Mumbai, Terrorists and Capitalists
Real Clear Markets | 3 December 2008

Theodore Dalrymple
Planet Obama
The American Conservative | 1 December 2008

November 2008

Judith Miller
Unlikely Allies: Barack Obama and Robert Gates
The Fox Forum | 28 November 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The True Lessons Of Citi’s Collapse
New York Post | 25 November 2008

Fred Siegel
King Bloomberg: Mike is a Mayor Run Amok
New York Post | 22 November 2008

Judith Miller
Close Gitmo with great care: Barack Obama must not rush to shut detention center
New York Daily News | 21 November 2008

Judith Miller
Al Qaeda Declares War on Obama
The Fox Forum | 19 November 2008

Howard Husock
Prescience on the CRA and the current financial debacle
Hot Air | 18 November 2008

Steven Malanga
Our Spendthrift States Don’t Need a Bailout
The Wall Street Journal | 18 November 2008

Fred Siegel
Bloomberg’s Bombast New York’s mayor buys himself a third term.
The Weekly Standard | 17 November 2008

Heather Mac Donald
NYC’s Wasteful Welfare Giveaway
New York Post | 11 November 2008

Marc Epstein
‘Standards’ Bait & Switch
New York Post | 11 November 2008

Nicole Gelinas
New York Is Headed for Dark Days Unless Bloomberg Changes Course
Wall Street Journal | 8 November 2008

Steven Malanga
Blue States Will Pay Obama Tax Bill
Real Clear Markets | 3 November 2008

October 2008

Brian C. Anderson
Freedom and the City
The American Spectator | October 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The Keys To Rebuilding Wall Street
New York Post | 31 October 2008

Steven Malanga
Foreclosure Myths: Can the Media Handle the Truth?
Real Clear Markets | 29 October 2008

Fred Siegel
‘Mr. Big’ in the Big City
National Review Online | 24 October 2008

Steven Malanga
Taxing Time for Ballot Questions
Real Clear Markets | 22 October 2008

Brian C. Anderson
Dems Get Set to Muzzle the Right
New York Post | 20 October 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Letting Bad Companies Go Bust
New York Post | 17 October 2007

Sol Stern
Ayers Is No Education ‘Reformer’
Wall Street Journal | 16 October 2008

Nicole Gelinas
To Fix US Finance
New York Post | 16 October 2008

Steven Malanga
No Government Jobs Recession Yet
Real Clear Markets | 15 October 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Forgive Us Our Debts?
In Character | 14 October2008

Andrew Klavan
5 Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals
Washington Post | 12 October 2008

Steven Malanga
The Bailout and the Vanishing Taxpayer
Real Clear Markets | 8 October 2008

Judith Miller
Catastrophe Update
Wall Street Journal | 6 October 2008

Brian C. Anderson
A Manifesto for Media Freedom
FrontPageMag.com | 3 October 2008

Brian C. Anderson and Nicole Gelinas
Post-Wall Street Meltdown, Pre-Veep Debate Edition
Pajamas Media | 1 October 2008

Steven Malanga
The Long Road to Slack Lending Standards
Real Clear Markets | 1 October 2008

September 2008

Fred Siegel
Politics, Still Local
Wall Street Journal | 30 Septemebr 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The Uncertainty Act of 2008
New York Post | 30 September 2008

Guy Sorman
From de Gaulle to Putin
Project Syndicate | 29 September 2008

Brian C. Anderson
Brian Anderson on A Manifesto for Media Freedom
NRO Radio | 25 September 2008

Steven Malanga
The Mortgage Mess Began on Main Street
Real Clear Markets | 24 September 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Wall St. Debt Knell
New York Post | 22 September 2008

Steven Malanga
Can Wall Street Re-Invent Itself Again?
Real Clear Markets | 17 September 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Wall St. Woes: Fear for the Future
New York Post | 16 September 2008

Heather Mac Donald
Homework, Por Favor
National Review Online | 12 September 2008

Steven Malanga
In America, The Poor Don’t Work
Real Clear Markets | 10 September 2008

Michael Knox Beran
John McCain is the real change agent
New York Daily News | 10 September 2008

Heather Mac Donald
How UC is rigging the admissions process
Los Angeles Times | 9 September 2008

Michael Knox Beran
The Blues: Obama’s effort to convince voters he’s a new kind of Democrat isn’t working.
National Review Online | 8 September 2008

Fred Siegel
The presidential soap opera is degrading our political process
Daily News | 7 September 2008

Fred Siegel
Five Best
Wall Street Journal | 6 September 2008

Michael Knox Beran
Clash of Civilizations 2008
National Review Online | 4 September 2008

Brian C. Anderson & Adam D. Thierer
Killing talk radio
The New Criterion | September 2008

Steven Malanga
How Will Obama’s Tax Plan Impact the Economy?
Real Clear Markets | 3 September 2008

Nicole Gelinas
In Gustav’s Wake
New York Post | 2 August 2008

Steven Malanga
Tax Rebates Redistribute Wealth
Real Clear Markets | 29 August 2008

Andrew Klavan
DHP Guest Review: Andrew Klavan Recommends ‘Red’
Dirty Harry’s Place | 29 August 2008

Steven Malanga
Do Corporations Really Pay No Taxes?
Real Clear Markets | 20 August 2008

Nicole Gelinas
A Genuine Sherriff of Wall St.
New York Post | 15 August 2008

Steven Malanga
President Obama Won't Revive Unions
RealClearMarkets | 13 August 2008

Andrew Klavan
The Jewel of Medina and the Cowardly Surrender of Random House
Pajamas Media | 12 August 2008

Steven Malanga
Anti-Business States Awash In Red Ink
RealClearMarkets | 6 August 2008

Andrew Klavan
Psychological Crime Novels
Wall Street Journal | 2 August 2008

July 2008

Judith Miller
Judith Miller: The Media Shield Law Is Long Overdue
U.S. News & World Report | 29 July 2008

Andrew Klavan
What Bush and Batman Have in Common
Wall Street Journal | 25 July 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The MTA Mess
New York Post | 24 July 2008

Marc Epstein
Ignorance is bliss on the state Regents history exam
New York Daily News | 23 July 2008

Steven Malanga
In the U.S., Selectively Applied Capitalism
RealClearMarkets | 23 July 2008

Paul Beston
A Look Back At the New Age
Wall Street Journal | 22 July 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Uncle Sam Can Bail Out Fannie, But Who’ll Bail Out Uncle Sam?
Investor’s Business Daily | 21 July 2008

Heather Mac Donald
Mike’s Misstep
New York Post | 15 July 2008

Heather Mac Donald
Cities You Can Believe In
Washington Post | 15 July 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Big Dig’s Lessons For Ground Zero
New York Post | 7 July 2008

Guy Sorman
China’s Next Revolution
Far Eastern Economic Review | 3 July 2008

Steven Malanga
The Zero at Ground Zero
RealClearMarkets | 2 July 2008

June 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Con Ed’s Next Crisis
New York Post | 30 June 2008

Kay S. Hymowitz
Fat kids, Time’s national shame
Los Angeles Times | 24 June 2008

Kay S. Hymowitz
What’s in the teen pregnancy pact’s fine print?
Los Angeles Times | 23 June 2008

Judith Miller
Turning Shame Into Pride
True Grit | July 2008

Steven Malanga
Bud Out, Foreign Investors
RealClearMarkets | 18 June 2008

Kay S. Hymowitz
Among the ‘Rentheads’
Wall Street Journal | 13 June 2008

Theodore Dalrymple
The Pains of Memory
New English Review | June 2008

Steven Malanga
The Trial Bar Behind Bars
RealClearMarkets | 11 June 2008

Guy Sorman
How Sarkozy Lost France
Wall Street Journal | 2 June 2008

May 2008

Steven Malanga
Income Inequality in the NFL
RealClearMarkets | 28 May 2008

Guy Sorman
Earthquakes and the Mandate of Heaven
Wall Street Journal | 17 May 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The MTA’s Construction Crisis
New York Post | 15 May 2008

Steven Malanga
In Britain, the Economy, Stupid
Real Clear Markets | 14 May 2008

Howard Husock
The Assimilation Factor
New York Sun | 13 May 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The Big Easy rebuilds, bottom up
Dallas Morning News | 11 May 2008

Steven Malanga
The Good News You Missed on Food Prices
RealClearMarkets | 7 May 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Foreclosure Fix
New York Post | 6 May 2008

Fred Siegel
The illusion that is Barack Obama
The Australian | 5 May 2008

Fred Siegel
The Obama Way
National Review | 5 May 2008

April 2008

Sol Stern
Guest Blogger Sol Stern Weighs In on Social Justice Teaching
Eduwonkette | 30 April 2008

Steven Malanga
Self-Inflicted Pain Hobbles States
Real Clear Markets | 30 April 2008

Guy Sorman
What is the West?
The Malta Independent | 30 April 2008

John Leo
The Worst Campus Codeword
Minding The Campus | 29 April 2008

Heather Mac Donald
Justice Served
New York Post | 28 April 2008

Sol Stern
Bill Ayers
Hannity and Colmes | 24 April 2008

Steven Malanga
Free Markets Are Rare in Starving Nations
Real Clear Markets | 24 April 2008

Harry Stein
‘Super Tuesday for Equal Rights’
Wall Street Journal | 23 April 2008

Steven Malanga
A Nonprofit Threat
New York Post | 23 April 2008

Judith Miller
Stuck in the middle
Los Angeles Times | 20 April 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Bank Robbery: Arguing Against Bailouts—And Government Bias
New York Post | 20 April 2008

Nicole Gelinas
MTA Budget Blues
New York Post | 16 April 2008

Steven Malanga
The Rich and Their Taxes
Real Clear Markets | 15 April 2008

Myron Magnet
Living for the city
World Magazine | 15 April 2008

Michael Knox Beran
Bitterness and the Self-Made Man
National Review Online | 15 April 2008

Guy Sorman
Beware of Boycott Backlash
New York Daily News | 14 April 2008

Sol Stern
A Tale of Two Rothsteins
Cato Unbound | 11 April 2008

Steven Malanga
Predatory Lending, or Mortgage Fraud?
RealClearMarkets | 9 April 2008

Heather Mac Donald
Interrogate This
National Review Online | 8 April 2008

Stefan Kanfer
School Daze
Minding the Campus | 2 April 2008

March 2008

Brian C. Anderson
The Art of Doing Something Well
Wall Street Journal | 27 March 2008

Judith Miller
FBI vs. the NYPD
New York Post | 25 March 2008

Fred Siegel
Character is Destiny
Weekly Standard | 24 March 2008

Andrew Klavan
Welcome to the right, Mr. Mamet
Los Angeles Times | 19 March 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The Bear Precedent
Wall Street Journal | 19 March 2008

Myron Magnet
‘The Inimitable’
Wall Street Journal | 15 March 2008

Fred Siegel
Gov. Longshot?
New York Post | 11 March 2008

Sol Stern
Too Good to Last: The True Story of Reading First
Education Excellence | 5 March 2008

Theodore Dalrymple
New York, spare unruly teenagers the cockroach treatment
Daily News | 5 March 2008

Heather Mac Donald
Seeing Is Believing
Weekly Standard | 3 March 2008

Nicole Gelinas
Hitting Stock Bottom
New York Post | 2 March 2008

February 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The Bond Mess
New York Post | 21 February 2008

Judith Miller
Journalism on Trial
Wall Street Journal | 21 February 2008

John Leo
The Pitfalls of Study Abroad
MindingTheCampus | 18 February 2008

Michael Knox Beran
Don’t Cry for Me, America
National Review | 13 February 2008

Judith Miller
Defender of the Faith
New York Sun | 11 February 2008

Nicole Gelinas
The Rise of the Mortgage ‘Walkers’
Wall Street Journal | 8 February 2008

Myron Magnet
Immigration Reversals
The American Spectator | 5 February 2008

Brian C. Anderson
Without a Net
New York Post | 3 February 2008

Guy Sorman
China’s Dangerous Nobodies
Project Syndicate | 1 February 2008

January 2008

Theodore Dalrymple
State of Humbug
The American Spectator | 25 January 2008

Guy Sorman
Globalization Is Making the World a Better Place
2008 Index of Economic Freedom | January 2008

John Leo
What’s New in Diversity
MindingTheCampus | 18 January 2008

Kay S. Hymowitz
King of the Projects
Wall Street Journal | 18 January 2008

Fred Siegel
Competitive Victimization
Commentary Magazine | 14 January 2008

Judith Miller
Israel’s Lesson in War
New York Sun | 11 January 2008

Rudolph W. Giuliani
The Resilient Society
OpinionJournal | 9 January 2008

Jay P. Greene
Students Lose When Diversity Is Main Focus
Investor’s Business Daily | 8 January 2008

Heather Mac Donald
NYPD’s historic feat should quiet critics
New York Daily News | 6 January 2008

Harry Stein
No Conservatives, Dammit!!
FrontPageMag.com | 4 January 2008

Nicole Gelinas
‘08: More Wall Street Wailing
New York Post | 2 January 2008

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