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July 2009
Judith Miller
Timely Warnings | A new NYPD report reminds us that Gotham is still al-Qaida’s and other terrorists’ Number One target.
2 July 2009
Guy Sorman
Revolution Fatigue | Events in Honduras and Argentina point to a continent weary of socialism.
1 July 2009
June 2009
James R. Copland
Defeat Cloaked in Victory | The Supreme Court’s commendable Ricci verdict won’t change the Catch-22 logic of discrimination law.
30 June 2009
Sol Stern
Win/Win/Lose | A new pension deal serves the interests of the mayor and the teachers’ union, not the kids.
25 June 2009
Daniel J. Flynn
The Fire Last Time | Those looking hopefully to the Iran uprising should remember the harsh lessons of 1979.
24 June 2009
Nicole Gelinas
A Better, Simpler Financial Fix | Markets don’t need more regulatory discretion; they need clear limits on risk-taking.
19 June 2009
Guy Sorman
Destroyed By Communism | Twenty years after Tiananmen, China and some of its Asian neighbors still suffer under Marxist ideology.
16 June 2009
Stephanie Hessler
Sotomayor and National Security | America’s safety shouldn’t be in the hands of judges.
16 June 2009
Heather Mac Donald
A Harlem Tragedy and Its Exploiters | Police officer Omar Edwards’s death had nothing to do with NYPD racism.
2 June 2009
Marc Epstein
Not Worth the Paper . . . | New York’s public schools have replaced social promotion with universal promotion.
1 June 2009
John P. Avlon
California Agonistes | The budget crisis in Sacramento should serve as a warning to other states.
1 June 2009
May 2009
Kay S. Hymowitz
Burying the Lead | The New York Times runs a piece on Hispanic poverty dressed up in happy talk.
29 May 2009
David Gratzer
Dr. Meddlesome | Obama’s new CDC head accomplished little worthwhile in New York.
27 May 2009
Pete Peterson
Tocqueville Surfs | Lessons in self-governance from Obama’s home state
22 May 2009
Daniel J. Flynn
Drinking Harvey Milk’s Kool-Aid | Lionized by Hollywood and California state legislators, the real Milk was a demagogue and pal of Jim Jones.
21 May 2009
Jerry Weinberger
Iraq Journal, Part Three | A visit to Saddam’s chamber of horrors
14 May 2009
David Gratzer
Health-Care Hardball | “Reconciliation” could backfire on the president.
13 May 2009
Claire Berlinski
Peaceful, Boring, and Newsworthy | Turkey’s tranquil May Day was a story in itself.
4 May 2009
April 2009
Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales
Stop Subsidizing the Street | Bailouts hurt much-needed entrepreneurship in the banking sector.
29 April 2009
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Poetic Justice | The shocking truth about Shakespeare and John Paul Stevens
28 April 2009
Jerry Weinberger
Iraq Journal, Part Two | Socialism on top, Milton Friedman on the bottom
22 April 2009
Andrew Klavan
The Little Red Wagon That Can | What I saw at the Tea Party
17 April 2009
April 2008
Marcus A. Winters
KIPP vs. the Teachers’ Unions | In New York, a key battle to preserve charter schools’ effectiveness
16 April 2008
April 2009
Paul Howard, Gualberto Ruaño
“GPS” for Health Care | Washington needs to understand the promise of gene-based treatments.
15 April 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
The Rosenbergs, Always | Liberals remain soft on Communism.
9 April 2009
James Kirchick
Lebanon on Tenterhooks | With June elections looming, hope coexists with fear.
8 April 2009
Nicole Gelinas
The Perils of P-PIP | Waste, fraud, and abuse: not just for defense contractors any more
7 April 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
The Two Frances | One a bourgeois paradise; the other, an urban fear zone
7 April 2009
Patrick J. McCloskey
Catholic-School Comeback? | Inner-city kids would be the big winners.
6 April 2009
Lawrence J. McQuillan
Putting Drug Research in Legal Jeopardy | California’s Wyeth ruling endangers pharmaceutical innovation.
3 April 2009
Jerry Weinberger
Iraq Journal, Part One | My arrival in Sulaimani, Kurdistan
2 April 2009
March 2009
Luigi Zingales
A New Regulatory Framework | Three agencies, based on the three main goals of financial regulation
31 March 2009
Adam D. Thierer
Socializing Media in Order to Save It | Another misguided proposal from John Nichols and Robert McChesney
27 March 2009
Max Schulz
Three Mile Island’s Three-Decade Mark | It’s time to end the nuclear industry’s 30-year sentence.
26 March 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Baying for AIG Blood | A bankruptcy—even a brutal one—could have been better than this.
23 March 2009
Max Schulz
Green Hustler | Meet Van Jones, a “Ph.do” in Environmentalist Sound Bite.
16 March 2009
John M. Murtagh
Some Wine with Your Pork, Congressman? | In Washington, New York, and all over the country, it’s business as usual, as usual.
6 March 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
Slip of a Lip | In Britain, people’s words show their acceptance of everyday violence.
5 March 2009
Marcus A. Winters
Money for Nothing | Billions of federal dollars subsidize the same failed education policies.
4 March 2009
John P. Avlon
Save D.C.’s Voucher Program! | It’s popular and it saves money; now Democrats want to axe it.
4 March 2009
James Manzi
The Innovation Squelch | Obamanomics is bad news for American entrepreneurs.
3 March 2009
Paul Beston
The Media’s Coffin Politics | Blame the networks for the now-lifted ban on showing military caskets.
3 March 2009
Max Schulz
Presidential Petroleum Prejudice | Obama’s budget discriminates against oil and gas producers.
2 March 2009
February 2009
Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales
Anti-Trust America | A trust deficit is driving our economy down.
27 February 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Jindal’s Missed Opportunity | Who better to offer a lesson in what government should do?
25 February 2009
Nicole Gelinas
The Developers’ Bailout | Propping up politically connected real estate won’t help New York.
24 February 2009
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Obama and “Me” | The president’s adulators praise even his bad grammar.
24 February 2009
John P. Avlon
The Great GASB | A new provision discloses how much we really spend on public-sector employees.
24 February 2009
Pete Peterson
Obama’s One-Way Social Networking | “Stimulus house parties” tend to invite just one kind of guest.
20 February 2009
Heather Mac Donald
Nation of Cowards? | So says Eric Holder, but what’s really cowardly is racial dishonesty.
19 February 2009
James Kirchick
Downplaying Hamas | The persistence of rationalizing terrorism against Israel
18 February 2009
Pietro Veronesi, Luigi Zingales
Geithner’s AIG Strategy | Its costs could be higher than advertised—and catastrophic.
18 February 2009
Harry Stein
Selena Roberts Has No Shame | The reporter who broke the Alex Rodriguez steroids story smeared the Duke lacrosse players.
13 February 2009
Walter Olson
The New Book Banning | Children’s books burn, courtesy of the federal government.
12 February 2009
Michael Knox Beran
Lincoln and the Moral Imagination | Our 16th president, neither a Bismarck nor a Darwin
11 February 2009
John M. Murtagh
Pack the City, We’re Moving! | Each year, one Yonkers leaves New York for friendlier climes.
11 February 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Public-Private Peril | Under Geithner’s plan, the private sector leaps into bed with the feds.
11 February 2009
André Glucksmann
The Crack of the Whip | Moscow fiddles while Europe freezes.
9 February 2009
Adam Nicholson
In Vino . . . | Culture and cocktails in the nation’s capital
9 February 2009
David Billet, Michael Davis
Pay for Performance | A modest proposal for reforming how banking products are sold
5 February 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Cap and Bail | The government’s new limit on executive pay is a symptom, not a problem.
5 February 2009
Paul Howard
$100 Billion of Bad Medicine | Medicaid is broken, and the lavish stimulus bill doesn’t fix it.
4 February 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Stimulating Some Thinking | Get the infrastructure part of the recovery package right.
2 February 2009
January 2009
Guy Sorman
The New American Soldier | David Petraeus, savior of the surge, turns to Afghanistan.
30 January 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
When Hooligans Bach Down | Strike up Johann Sebastian and watch them scatter.
29 January 2009
Sahil Mahtani
Telescopic Philanthropy | First World urbanites and their contempt for Third World urbanization
29 January 2009
Heather Mac Donald
The Times’s Weak-Willed Women | How else to explain female absence from the sciences?
28 January 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
Riders or Citizens? | Multinational passengers on a French train hold little in common.
27 January 2009
Daniel Freedman
Wanted: Offense with a Touch of Class | Prince Harry and his contemporaries need to study the great ones.
26 January 2009
Max Schulz
Obama’s California Dreamin’ | The new president’s granting of an emissions waiver to California is the height of irresponsibility.
26 January 2009
Howard Husock
Build Big, Mr. President | Obama should look past mere improvements and plan transformative infrastructure projects.
23 January 2009
Nicole Gelinas
The President’s First Roadblock | Yes, we can invest wisely in infrastructure—but how?
23 January 2009
Fred Siegel
As The Clans Turn | New York’s decrepit political culture receives a jolt with the senate appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand.
23 January 2009
Bruce Bawer
Submission in the Netherlands | The trial of Geert Wilders represents another blow against Dutch freedom.
22 January 2009
Stefan Kanfer
Another for the Stuffed Owl | Elizabeth Alexander manages to compose history’s worst inaugural poem.
21 January 2009
Marcus A. Winters
Stemming the Tide | Let’s pay science and math teachers more.
16 January 2009
Heather Mac Donald
Profiling Eric Holder | What does Obama’s attorney general–designate believe about cops and race?
14 January 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Stalling Out | Good leadership—from someone willing to address public-sector benefits costs—can save New York from Detroit’s fate.
14 January 2009
Daniel J. Flynn
Like Uncle, Like Niece | Caroline Kennedy’s candidacy mirrors Ted’s 47 years ago.
13 January 2009
Heather Mac Donald
What’s in a Name | When it comes to schools, a reflection of our future
12 January 2009
Michael Shermer
Irrational Economic Man | If human beings are naturally risk-averse, then what the heck happened on Wall Street?
11 January 2009
Brian C. Anderson
A Priest in Full | Father Richard John Neuhaus, R.I.P.
9 January 2009
André Glucksmann
On “Disproportion” | In Gaza, as everywhere, the word is irrelevant.
9 January 2009
Ruth Graham
Pennies Earned | A timely new reminder of the importance of thrift
8 January 2009
John P. Avlon
Obama’s Infrastructure Opening | The president-elect can rally support for public works, homeland security, and government transparency at the same time.
7 January 2009
Theodore Dalrymple
Reading the Signs | Gestural politics and disturbing reality at a Paris Metro stop
6 January 2009
Nicole Gelinas
Gotham’s Problems Are Camelot-Proof | Neither Caroline Kennedy nor Washington, DC can solve New York’s fiscal crisis.
6 January 2009
Heather Mac Donald
The Times’s Crime Confusions Persist | Error and distortion at the paper, Heaven help us, of record
5 January 2009
December 2008
Harrison Scott Key
The Phosphorescent List | A modest invective against telling people what you want for Christmas
23 December 2008
Thomas W. Carroll
Happy Birthday, Charter Schools | A ten-year-old law, mostly successful in New York
18 December 2008
Walter Olson
Windows on the Future? | A radical union’s action in Chicago could be a sign of things to come.
17 December 2008
Judith Miller
An NYPD/FBI Truce | Joseph Demarest’s arrival offers hope in a stubborn turf battle.
11 December 2008
James Kirchick
Defending Joe | Setting the record straight on Lieberman’s Obama “smears”
8 December 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
No Country for Young Children | More horrific tales of child abuse from Britain
4 December 2008
Guy Sorman
The Mumbai Strategy | The terrorist atrocities in India point to a larger goal.
2 December 2008
November 2008
Nicole Gelinas
A Tale of Two Paulsons | The free market is dead; long live the free market.
21 November 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Pot, Meet Kettle | Vulgarity is for rightists, say vulgarians on the left.
19 November 2008
Brian C. Anderson
A True Humanist | Myron Magnet wins the National Humanities Medal.
17 November 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Paulson Bails Out the Bailout | If at first it won’t succeed . . .
12 November 2008
Paul Beston, Nicole Gelinas, Howard Husock, Stefan Kanfer, Heather Mac Donald, Judith Miller, Benjamin A. Plotinsky, Guy Sorman
Notes on the Election | City Journal writers reflect on Tuesday’s results and on the implications of an Obama presidency.
7 November 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Bloomberg’s Missed Chance | The mayor should have asked the city’s biggest labor union for some concessions.
4 November 2008
Daniel J. Flynn
The Ghosts in Grant Park | Obama plans a party where his radical friends once ran wild.
3 November 2008
David Gratzer
ObamaCare | Would the candidate support a government-run health-care system?
2 November 2008
October 2008
Paul Howard
McCain’s Competitive Advantage | Can his health-care plan win middle-class votes?
30 October 2008
Howard Husock
The Financial Crisis and the CRA | A generation ago, the government began forcing banks to make bad loans.
30 October 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Sheltering Speculation | How we could have contained the housing bubble
29 October 2008
Katherine Ernst
The Audacity of Humility | Does Barack Obama have any? Does it matter?
28 October 2008
Edward L. Glaeser
New York Needs Innovation | The financial crisis is an opportunity to reform business-stifling laws.
27 October 2008
Lawrence J. McQuillan
Californians Voting with Their Feet | The state government’s stifling economic policies are worsening the downturn and driving citizens elsewhere.
23 October 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Protect the Burglars of Bromsgrove! | A British town puts thieves’ safety first.
20 October 2008
Claire Berlinski
Here Come the Unions | Democrats prepare to follow Margaret Thatcher’s example—but backward.
17 October 2008
David Gratzer
The Audacity of Distortion | Obama’s attacks on the McCain health-care plan are misleading.
15 October 2008
Walter Olson
Forced to Be Civil? | Some seem to think criminalizing negative campaigning is a good idea.
15 October 2008
Daniel J. Flynn, Steven Malanga, Sol Stern
The Acorn File | Background reading from City Journal’s writers
14 October 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Gettin’ All Mavericky | Conservatives should not sacrifice standards for political advantage.
13 October 2008
Steven Malanga
Term Limits and the Public Interest | Those seeking to change New York’s law seem to have self-interest in mind.
10 October 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Senator Uncertainty | McCain’s mortgage proposal contradicts the Paulson plan he just endorsed.
10 October 2008
John Leo
The Power of One | Liberal media transforms a single bigot at a Sarah Palin rally into a racist mob.
9 October 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Honesty from the Left on Hispanic Immigration | A provocative new book doesn’t flinch from delivering the bad news.
8 October 2008
Nicole Gelinas
A Better Bailout | The feds are finally shoring up the foundation of the credit markets.
7 October 2008
Sol Stern
The Bomber as School Reformer | The press—and debate moderators—shouldn’t let Bill Ayers and Barack Obama off the hook.
6 October 2008
John P. Avlon
Let Voters Decide on a Bloomberg Third Term . . . | . . . not the New York Times.
2 October 2008
Sol Stern
The Late, Great New York Sun | For over six years, the paper defended liberty and supported culture.
1 October 2008
John P. Avlon, Nicole Gelinas, Howard Husock, Steven Malanga
Wall Street Explodes | Background reading from City Journal’s writers
1 October 2008
September 2008
Steven Malanga
Why Economists Object to the Bailout Plan | A group of distinguished economists urges Washington to slow down.
26 September 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Five Questions About the Bailout . . . | . . . if Congress hasn’t passed it by the time you read this.
26 September 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Mark-to-Market Isn’t to Blame | Blaming fair-value accounting for banking misadventures is like criticizing the newspaper for reporting a murder.
25 September 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Anti-Elitism Goes Too Far | Sarah Palin’s defenders shouldn’t mock the value of learning.
25 September 2008
John P. Avlon
Questioning King Henry | The rush to pass the government’s bailout plan will cause more problems than it will solve.
23 September 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Greed Is for Other People | And other people’s money is very handy for “homeless” advocates and their clients.
22 September 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Throwing Bad Debt After Bad—Again! | Incredibly, Congress still wants to make dangerous loans.
18 September 2008
Justin Torres
Kwame Kilpatrick: Scourge of Detroit | The Motor City’s train wreck of a mayor finally steps aside—for now.
14 September 2008
Charles Upton Sahm
The Democrats’ Education Divide | What side is Barack Obama on?
12 September 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Going for Broke | In bailing out Fannie and Freddie, the feds up the ante on a bet that they may not be able to cover.
11 September 2008
John P. Avlon
A Conspiracy of Crackpots | On the trail of the 9/11 Truthers
10 September 2008
Kay S. Hymowitz
Red-State Feminism | Beware of underestimating Palinsanity.
8 September 2008
Lisa Schiffren
Why Palin’s Speech Worked | A former vice-presidential speechwriter breaks it down.
4 September 2008
Justin Torres
Some Jazz at Last | Three years later, Katrina’s final victims are laid to rest.
3 September 2008
Sol Stern
Buyer’s Remorse on Mayoral Control | As the school year begins, some crucial reforms are needed for the expiring legislation.
2 September 2008
August 2008
Lisa Schiffren
The Fighter Pilot and the Moose Hunter | McCain’s V.P. pick has electrified the base—for good reason.
31 August 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Sarah Palin (R-Diversity) | Republicans betray their principles by playing identity politics.
30 August 2008
Harry Stein
The Anti-Barbara Boxer | Plain-spoken, gun-toting Sarah Palin is the antithesis of the liberal woman politician.
30 August 2008
Harry Stein
The Racism Card | If Obama loses the election, it won’t be because of bigotry.
29 August 2008
Heather Mac Donald
I Do Solemnly Swear to Parade My Family . . . | Political conventions childishly conflate the personal with the political.
28 August 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Katrina, Three Years Later | Surrounded by both progress and despair, New Orleanians soldier on.
28 August 2008
Daniel J. Flynn
Overrate ’68 | Why is the Left glorying in its worst hour?
26 August 2008
Michael J. Totten
Report from Tbilisi | Fleeing Russian brutality, Georgians look to the West for support.
20 August 2008
Steven Malanga
New Jersey’s Ruin | The state’s leaders seem determined to drive it off a cliff.
19 August 2008
Herbert London
How to Account for the United Nations? | It doesn’t pay to keep the UN in New York.
14 August 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Seer of Evil | Alexander Solzhenitsyn rendered illusion not just stupid, but wicked.
13 August 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Andrew Cuomo’s Civil Approach | Where Eliot Spitzer produced headlines, the new AG produces results.
12 August 2008
Nicholas Wapshott
Obama’s Preemptive Indignation | For a postracial candidate, he sure takes offense easily.
8 August 2008
Guy Sorman
How Beijing Stole the Games | Revenge and power motivate the Communist leadership.
6 August 2008
Paul Howard
Hooray for Blockbuster Drugs | Their first era has revolutionized health care, and their second promises even more.
1 August 2008
July 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Math Is Harder for Girls | . . . and also, it seems, for the New York Times.
28 July 2008
Nicholas Wapshott
Obama’s Ego Trip | Will the candidate’s European progress backfire?
24 July 2008
Marc Epstein
The Regents, Stuck on Stupid | New York’s statewide exams get a little dumber every year.
23 July 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
La Cité, C’est Moi | Vainglorious French architects set out to destroy Paris.
22 July 2008
Nicole Gelinas
America, Too Big to Fail . . . Probably | The feds can bail out Fannie and Freddie, but who will bail out the feds?
16 July 2008
Kevin Donnelly
Schools Down Under | Australian education-policy questions should sound familiar to Americans.
15 July 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Grading on a Curse | British students get marks for obscenity.
11 July 2008
Nicholas Wapshott
Cameron’s Compromised Conservatism | Will the Tories bring bigger government to Britain?
9 July 2008
André Glucksmann
An Iconoclastic Icon | Ingrid Betancourt said no to slavery, even at the risk of death.
8 July 2008
Steven Malanga
Ed Koch’s Quixotic Quest | The former mayor proposes a third party in New York.
7 July 2008
Nicole Gelinas
New Twin Towers? | It may not be too late.
6 July 2008
Heather Mac Donald
There Go the Neighborhoods | Even million-dollar housing vouchers bring crime to the suburbs.
2 July 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Grill Power | Elitist feminism and the New York Times
1 July 2008
June 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Tangled Power Lines | It’s time Con Ed had a long-term capital improvement plan.
30 June 2008
Daniel J. Flynn
Obama’s Boys of Summer | A Who’s Who of 1968 radicals supports the candidate.
29 June 2008
Sol Stern
New York’s Lake Wobegon Effect | The state’s rosy test scores don’t square with reality.
26 June 2008
Kay S. Hymowitz
Gloucester Girls Gone Wild | Why they did it
23 June 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Europe’s Unhappy Union | Political elites continue to push unification against their constituents’ wishes.
18 June 2008
Guy Sorman
The Revolution Will Be Digitalized | Why I love my Kindle
13 June 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
An “Essential Quality” | A French court recognizes virginity—or lack thereof—as grounds for annulment.
5 June 2008
Judith Miller
Obamamania in Damascus | Syrians like the candidate’s approach to diplomacy.
3 June 2008
May 2008
Nidra Poller
Spoiled for a Fight | Parisian squatters versus the nanny state
30 May 2008
Daniel Freedman
Red-Faced Devils | Manchester United fans owe a thank-you—and an apology—to Malcolm Glazer.
28 May 2008
Thomas P. Stossel
Lifesaving Salesmen | Despite a current fad, medical companies should keep talking to doctors.
27 May 2008
John Leo
Girl Crazy | A new report papers over the growing education gap between the sexes.
23 May 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Leave Jindal Alone! | If John McCain wants to help Louisiana, he should let its governor stay there.
22 May 2008
Adam D. Thierer
Congress Fiddles, Newspapers Burn | The Senate scorns media-ownership reform.
20 May 2008
Sol Stern
Reading First Still Works | What’s flawed is the new federal study on it.
19 May 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Matters of Trust | What’s wrong with giving homeowners a New York–style bailout
14 May 2008
Paul Beston
Belles and Tolls | Horse racing, like art and life, comes with tragedy built-in.
9 May 2008
Steven Malanga
Change That Kids Could Believe In | Barack Obama should address the crippling trend of out-of-wedlock births.
8 May 2008
Jerry Weinberger
The Skies Are Still Friendly | . . . but a trial for the pitiable first-class passenger.
6 May 2008
Judith Miller
Anti-Jihad U. | Bringing insurgents in from the cold
2 May 2008
André Glucksmann
Olympic Crossroads | It’s time for Western democracies to put pressure on Beijing.
1 May 2008
April 2008
John M. Murtagh
Fire in the Night | The Weathermen tried to kill my family.
30 April 2008
Nicole Gelinas
A Safe Haven for Investors | American regulations protect account holders from around the world; will policymakers thwart them?
29 April 2008
Heather Mac Donald
Poisonous “Authenticity” | Jeremiah Wright draws on a long line of Afrocentric charlatans.
29 April 2008
Kay S. Hymowitz
Sexism Isn’t Holding Hillary Back | If anything, being a woman is helping her.
28 April 2008
Kimberly Hendrickson
Common Ground in New Orleans | Where Left and Right can agree, courtesy of the Mercatus Center
24 April 2008
Sol Stern
Obama’s Real Bill Ayers Problem | The ex-Weatherman is now a radical educator with influence.
23 April 2008
Steven Malanga
Doing Well Off Do-Gooders | New York politicians continue to use nonprofits for their own purposes.
22 April 2008
Judith Miller
Iraq Quandaries | The U.S. could be caught between warring Shiite factions.
21 April 2008
Harry Stein
Racial-Preference Ballots Go National | Initiatives in four states could shape the presidential election.
16 April 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Words Not Deeds | Governor Paterson’s promising speech—and enormous budget
14 April 2008
John Leo
Columbia’s Rebel Reunion | The university commemorates its darkest hour.
10 April 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
No Contrition, No Penalty | Britain barely punishes even the most psychopathic behavior.
8 April 2008
Nicole Gelinas
A Feckless Foreclosure Fix | Just the first of many pernicious bailouts
7 April 2008
Marie Gryphon
Overwarning, Undercuring | The FDA’s crackdown on excessive drug labeling needs Supreme Court help.
4 April 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Delusions of Virtue | We should hope Hillary Clinton’s Bosnia tale was a lie—and not a fantasy.
3 April 2008
Paul Beston
Fantasy Candidates | The parties should stop dreaming about Al Gore and Condoleezza Rice.
1 April 2008
March 2008
David Gratzer, Paul Howard
Mandates Are Not the Answer | Barack Obama has it (mostly) right.
31 March 2008
Steven Malanga
Getting Poverty Wrong | On the presidential campaign trail, it’s almost as if the 1960s never happened.
21 March 2008
Harry Stein
Obama, Less Than Audacious | The real discussion on race is still to come.
19 March 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Memo to Governor Paterson | Don’t wait for the Wall Street crisis to worsen—start cutting now.
18 March 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Morality and Spitzer | The governor’s fall is not an argument for de-moralizing social policy.
14 March 2008
Bruce S. Thornton
Spitzer’s Comic Fall | To understand the disgraced governor, brush up your Aristophanes.
12 March 2008
Steven Malanga
Empire Burlesque | Spitzer’s downfall leaves Albany still seeking a reformer.
11 March 2008
Nicole Gelinas
New York Gets Steamrolled | The state must recover from Spitzer’s transgressions quickly.
11 March 2008
Guy Sorman
Europe ♥ Obama | For continental elites, the candidate exemplifies “the good American.”
6 March 2008
Steven Malanga
New Jersey’s Bad Government Blues | The state’s residents have little to show for their crushing tax burden.
5 March 2008
Fred Siegel
William F. Buckley’s Unmaking of a Mayor | . . . and the making of a national coalition
3 March 2008
Heather Mac Donald
A Thought Experiment on Campus Rape | False statistics, or evil administrators?
2 March 2008
February 2008
Steven Malanga
Hillary Clinton’s Irrational Exuberance | The senator’s job-creating promises ring hollow.
29 February 2008
Myron Magnet
The Unbought Grace of Life | Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.
27 February 2008
Fred Siegel
Yes, We Can’t | From Ralph Waldo Emerson to Deval Patrick, the politics of hope have been a bust.
25 February 2008
Steven Malanga
Construction Corruption | It will take more than one dramatic bust to clean up New York’s mob-plagued building industry.
14 February 2008
Matthew Clavel
Chartering Success | The single-sex education movement catches on.
12 February 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Accommodating Islamic Law? | Archbishop Rowan Williams foolishly rolls out the red carpet for British sharia.
11 February 2008
David Gratzer
Time to Rechristen SCHIP | Let states develop their own health-care safety nets.
8 February 2008
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
The Postracial Primary | New York City shows its true colors.
5 February 2008
John Leo
Orwell Lives | For some liberals, diversity should be banned.
4 February 2008
Fred Siegel
Bizarre Bedfellows for Barack | Conservatives and liberals rally behind an unqualified candidate.
4 February 2008
January 2008
Paul Beston
Requiem for Rudy | Giuliani’s exit removes the most visible representative of September 11.
31 January 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Mitt Romney’s Smart Tax Plan | Investment-friendly tax cuts, not one-time rebates
31 January 2008
Marie Gryphon
Unjust Deserters | Money-hungry Vioxx lawyers leave many clients in the lurch.
28 January 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Don’t Foreclose the Possibilities | The mortgage meltdown doesn’t have to cause a 1970s replay in Gotham.
25 January 2008
Thomas W. Carroll, Andrew J. Coulson, Robert Enlow, Jay P. Greene, E. D. Hirsch, Matthew Ladner, Neal McCluskey, Diane Ravitch, Sol Stern
Is School Choice Enough? | In City Journal’s Winter 2008 issue, contributing editor Sol Stern wrote a piece, School Choice Isn’t Enough, that ignited a firestorm of debate within the school-reform movement. Here, some of the nation’s top education scholars discuss the story, and Stern responds.
24 January 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
King’s Dream, His Nightmare | An American professor rejects nonviolence for blacks.
22 January 2008
Nicole Gelinas
For Whom the Roads Toll | Under Governor Corzine’s bad plan, toll hikes will pay down New Jersey’s debt.
14 January 2008
Fred Siegel
The Globalization Election | Voters are showing their anxiety about the economy and immigration.
10 January 2008
André Glucksmann
Time on Putin’s Side | No “boy scout,” indeed
4 January 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
Mind Forg’d Manacles | The Left’s belief in the helplessness of the poor is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
3 January 2008
Harry Stein
No Conservatives, Dammit!! | The Times hires William Kristol, and the illiberal liberals go nuts.
2 January 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Banks, Shot | Wall Street—and New York—face a challenging 2008.
2 January 2008
December 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Separation Anxiety | Divorcees are bad for the environment. Do environmentalists care?
27 December 2007
Steven Malanga
Health-Care Reform, New York Style | Empty hospital beds, resistance to downsizing, and ever-rising costs
20 December 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The Best Disinfectant | Project Sunlight, a voter-information website with great promise
19 December 2007
Steven Malanga
No Capital Punishment, Says Jersey | Condemning the state to death is another matter.
11 December 2007
Fred Siegel
A New York-Centric Presidential Election | Rudy vs. Hillary would nationalize the city’s local political battles.
7 December 2007
Charles Upton Sahm
Lessons for Mexico in Brazil’s Boom | In the energy sector, open markets work.
5 December 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Henry Paulson’s Mortgage Mulligan | A new subprime debacle
3 December 2007
November 2007
Bruce S. Thornton
Epistle to the Muslims | Christian leaders abase themselves before Islam.
27 November 2007
Stefan Kanfer
The Last Word on Broadway | The stagehands’ strike is about protecting featherbedding.
26 November 2007
Bruce S. Thornton
Ideology Trumps Truth on Campus | The doors are open for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but closed for Larry Summers.
21 November 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
No Security | Britain is failing in its most basic duty to its citizens.
20 November 2007
Steven Malanga
What the Driver’s License Debate Ignored | Governor Spitzer’s plan was another incentive for illegal behavior.
19 November 2007
Sol Stern
The NAEP Doesn’t Lie | The “nation’s report card” shows little or no improvement in New York City schools.
15 November 2007
Adam D. Thierer
Media Deregulation Is Dead | The FCC’s toothless reforms are a victory for the status quo.
15 November 2007
Fred Siegel
Not-So-Macho Mailer | My showdown with the literary tough guy
14 November 2007
Howard Husock
Sin of Omission | Charles Rangel’s tax proposal ignores a marriage penalty for the poor.
13 November 2007
Diana Schaub
What Montesquieu Would Say About “Saggin’” | Manners and mores are shaped by example, not law.
9 November 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Super SIV to the Rescue? | The banks’ second thoughts on securitizations may signal a long credit crunch.
8 November 2007
James Kirchick
The Anti-Neocon Fervor | Parsing the new political discourse
6 November 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
The Problem With Leniency | France’s early release of Bernard Cantat sends the wrong message.
6 November 2007
Sol Stern
Debate, Don’t Demonize | Why is the Bloomberg administration trying to discredit Diane Ravitch?
1 November 2007
October 2007
David Gratzer
Malignant Rumor | On cancer survival rates, Rudy’s right and his critics are wrong.
31 October 2007
Nicole Gelinas
San Diego Saints | California’s wildfire response took a page from Houston’s playbook, not New Orleans’s.
30 October 2007
Paul Howard
The Health of Nations | America’s health outcomes compare favorably to Canada’s, a new study shows.
29 October 2007
Nidra Poller
Law and Order in Sarkozy’s France | Scorned by the media, the new president enjoys wide popular support.
23 October 2007
Michael Knox Beran
How Lincoln Saved the World | Only a free America could have fought for global freedom.
23 October 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Crime and Elite Stupidity | For the French paper of record, criminals are the real victims.
19 October 2007
David Horowitz, Jacob Laksin
Radical U. | Welcome to UC Santa Cruz, the worst school in America.
19 October 2007
Adam D. Thierer
A Fairness Doctrine for the Internet | Brought to you by NARAL—and the Christian Coalition
18 October 2007
Mark Riebling
Watching the Watchman | The CIA’s investigation of its own inspector general is perfectly legitimate.
17 October 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Are Poor Students Worth More? | New York’s schools chancellor thinks so, but taxpayers may disagree.
16 October 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Cameras, Crooks, and Deterrence | Constant surveillance seems to have had little effect on Britain’s sky-high crime.
16 October 2007
E. S. Savas
Breaking the Chinese Code | Welcome to the People’s Republic, land of “harmony” and “community.”
10 October 2007
Walter Olson
Over the Edge | Hofstra Law School’s new guest lecturer on legal ethics: disbarred felon Lynne Stewart
5 October 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Foul-Weather Friends | Congress knows its hurricane politics, if not its economics.
4 October 2007
Adam D. Thierer
Long-Range Censors | We don’t need government regulations on in-flight programming.
3 October 2007
Michael Knox Beran
Clarence Thomas, Created Equal | Liberal elites use the stigma of affirmative action to belittle a great justice.
2 October 2007
Sol Stern
False Prophet | Who’s to blame for urban teacher flight: George W. Bush or Jonathan Kozol?
1 October 2007
September 2007
Diane Ravitch
New York State Test Scores: Who to Believe? | National tests cast doubt on New York’s feel-good story.
28 September 2007
Heather Mac Donald
The Jena Dodge | Demonstrators and the media avoid the stubborn truths of black social breakdown.
24 September 2007
William J. Bratton, R. P. Eddy, George L. Kelling
The Blue Front Line in the War on Terror | For cops, crime fighting and counterterrorism go hand in hand.
20 September 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Islam, the Marxism of Our Time | Some troubling signs in Europe
17 September 2007
Steven Malanga
The Road Out of Poverty | Welfare reform has lowered New York’s poverty rate, but rising illegitimacy threatens these gains.
12 September 2007
Marc Epstein
Our Schools’ Cellular Plague | Mobile phones encourage theft and assault—but banning them in schools isn’t working.
12 September 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Lower Manhattan’s Next Challenge | In an economic downturn, could downtown survive grabby politicians?
11 September 2007
Stefan Kanfer
British Broadcast Cowardice | The BBC’s sad decline
10 September 2007
Bruce S. Thornton
Fighting at a Disadvantage | Bad cultural habits plague the West in the War on Terror.
10 September 2007
Adam D. Thierer
Who Killed TV’s “Family Hour”? | It’s not who you think.
7 September 2007
Charles Upton Sahm
More Audacity, Please | On education, Barack Obama offers stirring rhetoric but tame proposals.
4 September 2007
August 2007
Paul Beston
It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot | Ultimate fighting may be on its way to New York.
30 August 2007
Steven Malanga
New Jersey’s Costly Immigrant Burden | Governor Corzine’s plan to hook more immigrants up to public benefits makes no sense.
29 August 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The Most Dangerous City | Two years after Katrina, New Orleans desperately needs law and order.
28 August 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Notes from the Underground | A company maintaining the Tube gets off the train early—and provides useful lessons for the U.S.
23 August 2007
Judith Miller
The Ill Turn of the Native | How homegrown terrorists are born
21 August 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
How Societies Commit Suicide | Scots and Italians surrender to Islam.
17 August 2007
Steven Malanga
A Funding Solution for New York’s Roads and Bridges | Let the private sector step in.
9 August 2007
Steven Malanga
City Without Fathers | Behind Newark’s epidemic violence are its thousands of fatherless children.
9 August 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The Crumbling of America | Our precious infrastructure inheritance and how
we’re squandering it
3 August 2007
Adam D. Thierer
Rupert Murdoch, Meet Chicken Little | The sale of the Wall Street Journal isn’t the end of the world.
2 August 2007
July 2007
Nicole Gelinas
John Edwards’s Tax Muddle | Under his plan, not only the rich would get soaked.
31 July 2007
Judith Miller
A Conversation with Shimon Peres | Israel’s new president discusses his hopes for the future.
25 July 2007
Joanne Jacobs
The Underdog Imperative | Win or lose, kids shouldn’t be shielded from competition.
25 July 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Cop Killers in High Places | When newspapers and black leaders assault the police, small wonder that criminals follow suit.
19 July 2007
Marc Epstein
Dumbing Down the Regents | This year’s American history exams are nearly flunk-proof.
18 July 2007
Nicole Gelinas
DC’s Freddy Ferrer Tax | The spirit of New York’s failed mayoral candidate lives on in Washington.
17 July 2007
Howard Husock
A Grand Tax-Code Bargain | How to boost poverty relief and cut taxes
13 July 2007
Victor Davis Hanson
The New York Times Surrenders | A monument to defeatism on the editorial page
12 July 2007
Lee Harris
Mad Scientists | The disturbing lessons of the Doctors’ Plot
11 July 2007
Thomas W. Carroll
Fixing Education in Albany | Spitzer is off to a good start—but there’s lots more to do.
6 July 2007
Steven Malanga
Our Broken Immigration Record | A history of violated promises has shattered the public’s trust.
5 July 2007
Jonathan Butcher, Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida
Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago | Why have we stopped naming schools after great public figures?
2 July 2007
Bradley A. Smith
Campaign Finance Reform’s War on Political Freedom | An ongoing danger, despite two recent court victories
1 July 2007
June 2007
Nicole Gelinas
NY’s Mini-Blackout Warning | The city’s physical infrastructure desperately needs renewal.
29 June 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Rewriting Ground Zero’s Reality | Will New York’s heroic post-9/11 legacy permanently fracture into ugly accusations?
27 June 2007
Fred Siegel
The Anti-Perot | Michael Bloomberg is no populist.
26 June 2007
John Leo
Bowling With Our Own | Robert Putnam’s sobering new diversity research scares its author.
25 June 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Patronizing the Poor | According to the Bloomberg administration, the poor won’t act in their own best interest unless they’re paid to do so.
21 June 2007
Fred Siegel
Hope for Old Europe? | At last, some signs of resistance to Islamist radicals.
19 June 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Happy Father’s Day, Mom! | Hallmark cashes in on family breakdown.
15 June 2007
John Leo
Let the Segregation Commence | Separatist graduations proliferate at UCLA.
13 June 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Avanti, Dr. Kevorkian! | There may be an overseas market for the doctor’s services.
12 June 2007
Harry Stein
Charles Pickering Gets the Last Word | A maligned civil rights hero, the changing South, and the future of the courts
10 June 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The Obstacle to Bloomberg’s Master Plan | It’s called the MTA.
8 June 2007
Heather Mac Donald
The Republicans’ Hispanic Delusion | Amnesty is not just wrong in principle, it’s bad politics.
6 June 2007
Marc Epstein
Sitting Out the Pledge | In New York’s public schools, patriotism is passé.
4 June 2007
John Leo
Taking a Flier on Free Speech | Hate-crime laws threaten the First Amendment.
4 June 2007
May 2007
Nicole Gelinas
HillaryCare for Tots | Billions of dollars for kids—and for unions, of course
25 May 2007
Heather Mac Donald
New York to the DOJ: Hands Off Our Fire Department | Firefighting is no place for racial politics.
23 May 2007
John Leo
The Office of Assertion | Some thoughts on writing well
21 May 2007
Steven Malanga
Skilled Immigrants at Last? | Flaws and all, the proposed bill could change immigration for the better.
18 May 2007
Guy Sorman
A French Neoconservative? | Nicolas Sarkozy is France’s first anti-anti-American leader.
11 May 2007
Sol Stern
Radical Math at the DOE | “Social justice” teachers propagandize while Chancellor Klein looks the other way.
11 May 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Obama’s “Health Care for Hybrids” | A bad idea
9 May 2007
Nidra Poller
Enfin, the French Elections’ Final Round | Heading into the home stretch, Sarkozy holds the lead.
2 May 2007
April 2007
Adam D. Thierer
Should We Regulate Violent TV? | Sure—so long as parents do it, not the government.
30 April 2007
Marc Epstein
Swimming with Barracudas | Violent students need to be expelled.
27 April 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The Other Green in Bloomberg’s Plan | Money.
24 April 2007
Kay S. Hymowitz
Why We Ignore Madmen | Privacy and antidiscrimination laws have meant paralysis in the face of the scarily insane.
21 April 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Mass Murder, Martyrdom, and the Media | The Virginia Tech killer expertly manipulated NBC and its competitors.
19 April 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Blair Breaks the Black Crime Taboo | Gangsta culture, not an unjust society, drives it, says the outgoing British prime minister.
12 April 2007
Charles H. Brunie
My Friend, Milton Friedman | Reminiscences of a great man
11 April 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
The British Way of Murder | Surveillance won’t guarantee good behavior.
9 April 2007
Nicole Gelinas
How Not to Save the Middle Class | A new study offers “solutions” that will only make life costlier for New Yorkers.
6 April 2007
Peter Meyer
Mr. Rivera Goes to Albany | Is Spitzer’s new education lieutenant a genuine reformer?
6 April 2007
Paul Howard
Sickly States | Needless state mandates drive up health insurance costs for all.
5 April 2007
John Leo
Holocaust Avoidance | British schools are jettisoning lessons to keep Muslims happy.
4 April 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Time for the Truth About Black Crime Rates | The lessons of the Sean Bell case
2 April 2007
March 2007
Nidra Poller
Whither France? | Reading the tea leaves for the presidential election
30 March 2007
Heather Mac Donald
A Civil Solution | The narrow framework of criminal law doesn’t fit fatal police miscalculations.
27 March 2007
Steven Malanga
The Priciest City | Under Mayor Bloomberg, New York’s tax gap widens.
27 March 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Leveling Britain | Mediocrity on the march
22 March 2007
Sol Stern
Radical Equations | Marxist pedagogues are hard at work in New York’s public schools.
19 March 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Congress to the Rescue? | A decidedly sub-prime idea for the housing market
16 March 2007
Charles Upton Sahm
Leaders vs. Loonies | Latin America has more responsible presidents than the example of Hugo Chavez suggests.
15 March 2007
Steven Malanga
Taking on Albany’s Gorillas | Spitzer fights back on health-care reform.
5 March 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Eclipsing Beauty | Gerard Mortier threatens to “update” City Opera—with trendy nihilism.
1 March 2007
February 2007
John Leo
Sins of Omission | Newspapers clam up about race, religion, and politics.
28 February 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Don’t Knock Down New Orleans’s Projects | Just sell them off to middle-class homeowners.
23 February 2007
Nicole Gelinas
The JetBlue Way | Flying the friendly skies—probably.
20 February 2007
Steven Malanga
Steamrolled | Unlike his predecessor, Governor Spitzer loses his first Albany battle.
14 February 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Harvard’s Faustian Bargain | America’s oldest university selects a dreadful president.
9 February 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Spitzer’s Radical Medicaid Surgery? | It’s really a placebo, but you wouldn’t know it from union screaming.
8 February 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Why Cops Stop and Frisk So Many Blacks | Blame high black crime, not police racism.
7 February 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Modern Predestination | The dangerous notion that misconduct is genetic
6 February 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
The Cost of Frivolity | Is a national culture of pop, fashion, and gambling enough to resist our enemies?
1 February 2007
January 2007
Philip Murphy
Brutalism Begone | Good riddance to Beantown’s City Hall.
31 January 2007
Nicole Gelinas
Wall Street Worries | New York should heed (some of) McKinsey’s suggestions.
22 January 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Sensitivity Lesson | You better watch what you say in today’s Britain.
19 January 2007
Heather Mac Donald
Blaming New York’s Finest | Gotham pols sacrifice the NYPD to racial politics.
17 January 2007
Steven Malanga
Jersey Is Cratering | And Governor Corzine fiddles.
12 January 2007
Theodore Dalrymple
Global Runaround | The modern world isn’t always more efficient.
6 January 2007
December 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Kill Off Atlantic Yards | The Forest City/Ratner project is everything that’s wrong with the Empire State.
19 December 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Do Iraqis Have Free Will? | Not according to liberals.
18 December 2006
Nicole Gelinas
The BoNY-Mellon Merger | Is it good for Gotham?
7 December 2006
Heather Mac Donald
No, the Cops Didn’t Murder Sean Bell | And here’s what decent black advocates would say.
4 December 2006
November 2006
Steven Malanga
Empire State Dreamin’ | Here’s why a Democratic congress won’t help New York.
10 November 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Who Will Run Albany? | Spitzer or Silver?
8 November 2006
Steven Malanga
Killing Gotham’s Golden Goose | Why won’t New York’s congressional delegation help Wall Street?
3 November 2006
October 2006
Nicole Gelinas
New York Isn’t Mexico | The problem with Bloomberg’s cash-transfer program
20 October 2006
Steven Malanga
Relocation Blues | New York City’s shortage of office space hampers its economic future.
17 October 2006
September 2006
Heather Mac Donald
Amnesty Lessons | Europe finds that amnesty for illegal immigrants brings ever more illegals.
29 September 2006
Steven Malanga
Immigration Confusions | A response to the New York Sun.
27 September 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Freeing Us from the Freedom Tower | The Port Authority should save the worst for last.
21 September 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Are Belgian Women Endangered? | For now, only if they’re Muslim.
19 September 2006
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
No Truth in Beauty | The future of fauxtography is on the nightly news.
14 September 2006
August 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Katrina’s Real Lesson | Blame inadequate infrastructure, not poverty, for the storm’s devastation.
28 August 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
“Treating” Drug Abuse | If you can bribe drug abusers to stay off drugs, doesn’t that mean they can quit anytime?
25 August 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Vox Populi | Were Britons unreasonable to refuse to fly with Muslims?
24 August 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
A Little Social Experiment | On a London street, “social” housing encourages antisocial egotism.
10 August 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Dependency as Independence? | The teen mum’s confused choice
3 August 2006
July 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Spare Some Electricity, Mr. Mayor? | No—too boring for Bloomberg.
25 July 2006
Denis Boyles
Biased Beeb | The BBC’s World Service makes the New York Times seem fair and balanced.
21 July 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Subsidized Stupidity | Rather than elevate the culture, the BBC degrades it—at public expense.
21 July 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Power to the Pedophiles | The real danger of a Dutch court’s loony decision
19 July 2006
Nicole Gelinas
The MTA and the MTA | Does New York do better than Boston?
14 July 2006
Steven Malanga
Getting Real About Gotham’s Economy | The NY Fed is wrong to call it strong.
14 July 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Hobbesian Soccer | To European louts, Zidane’s head-butt was an honorable act.
13 July 2006
Heather Mac Donald
The Open Borders Mayor | Don’t fall for Mayor Bloomberg’s immigration plan.
10 July 2006
June 2006
Brian C. Anderson
Hands Off the Net | Congress wisely resists the urge to regulate cyberspace.
28 June 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Subverting the War on Terror | Contrary to the Times, the Bush administration did have permission to monitor suspected terrorist banking transactions.
27 June 2006
Nidra Poller
The Wrath of Ka | Black anti-Semites storm Paris’s old Jewish quarter.
6 June 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Homeland Insecurity | Missing landmarks aren’t the problem.
2 June 2006
May 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Not NYSE for New York | The stock exchange’s bid for Europe’s stock markets isn’t good news for Gotham.
24 May 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Fashionable Guerrillas | For the Left, noble revolutionaries are always in style.
23 May 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Downtown Rising | Despite Pataki and Bloomberg, the private sector is fixing lower Manhattan.
23 May 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Did the Big Easy’s Election Matter? | New Orleanians don’t seem to know what they want from a leader.
22 May 2006
Steven Malanga
Hope for Newark | Cory Booker faces a big task in trying to turn around a completely dysfunctional city.
11 May 2006
Heather Mac Donald
Illegal Immigration Myths | Cutting through the baloney on what to do about illegals
1 May 2006
April 2006
Brian C. Anderson
Air America Deflates | The “progressive” radio network isn’t long for this world.
29 April 2006
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Myth of the Anointed | History shows that vice presidents usually don’t win the top spot.
28 April 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Growing Up British | The sordid is all too typical.
28 April 2006
Howard Husock
Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006 | New York’s indispensable urban iconoclast
27 April 2006 (updated from Winter 1994)
Nicole Gelinas
Half a Loaf at Ground Zero | Has the Port Authority offered developer Larry Silverstein a fair deal to rebuild the World Trade Center?
26 April 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Katrina Kids Suffering? | Yes, in part thanks to FEMA’s insta-ghettos.
20 April 2006
Sol Stern
Won’t Someone Stop This Tragedy? | Bloomberg’s education campaign is driving Gotham’s Catholic schools out of business.
18 April 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Crimes and Motives | Does it matter how violent criminals choose their victims?
12 April 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Hollywood Gets It Wrong. Again. | Will self-congratulatory celebrities ever shut up?
11 April 2006
Heather Mac Donald
What Would Mexico Do with Protesting Illegals? | Deport them on the spot.
10 April 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Choreographing a New Budget Dance | How Bloomberg should shake it up.
7 April 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Wrong Instinct | The viewers made it bomb?
5 April 2006
March 2006
Heather Mac Donald
Everyone’s a Victim | If boys and girls are oppressed classes, who’s left?
30 March 2006
Steven Malanga
False Claim | Trial lawyers aren’t the answer to Medicaid fraud.
29 March 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Financial Follies at Ground Zero | Or are they political follies?
22 March 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Vive l’Inégalité | Privileged French students demonstrate to preserve their entitlement.
17 March 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Gotham’s Very Own Muslim Firebrand | Why should taxpayers be subsidizing Islamist hatred in city jails?
16 March 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Profumo After the Affair | Remembered for the scandal that bears his name, John Profumo died an honorable man.
15 March 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
British Freedom and Muslim Discipline | The real plight of Mrs. Blair’s clients
13 March 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Red Ken, the Odious | The latest controversy surrounding London’s left-wing mayor reflects discredit on British society.
9 March 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Criminal Negligence | The feds are paying to rebuild New Orleans on a civic swamp.
8 March 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Jew Tortured, Times Fiddles | Paper puts peaceful imam on page one.
7 March 2006
February 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Fieldston Follies | A tony private school’s PC attitudes go too far for even liberal parents.
17 February 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
Viva Voltaire | In the cartoon controversy, it’s the French who’ve been courageous, the Americans and British spineless.
10 February 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
No Beheadings, Please, We’re British. | Appeasing Muslim extremists means surrendering Western liberties.
6 February 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Reconstructing New Orleans | Let homeowners serve as the ground troops.
3 February 2006
January 2006
Heather Mac Donald
Talking Sense on “Spying” | Requiring warrants for computerized surveillance is absurd and dangerous to national security.
2 January 2006
Theodore Dalrymple
France’s New Serfdom | Après statism, le déluge?
30 January 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Why Didn’t Anyone Save Nixzmary? | Or Josiah, or Dahquay, or Sierra?
18 January 2006
Nicole Gelinas
Katrina Refugees Shoot Up Houston | FEMA should help the Texas city control its crime spike.
4 January 2006
Stefan Kanfer
Barbra’s Dictionary | What’s a lefty celebrity to do?!
3 January 2006
December 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Mayor Bloomberg: Get the Buses Running. | And save New York from a slow-motion economic disaster.
21 December 2005
Nicole Gelinas
It’s Time to Privatize Gotham’s Buses | Striking TWU workers show the danger of a single monopoly system.
19 December 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Putting Teeth in the Taylor Law | In the event of a transit strike, New York pols must hang tough.
14 December 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Strange Hero-Worship | The death of a dissolute soccer star sends England into a frenzy of ersatz grief.
6 December 2005
November 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Drug Quandaries | Dutch officials don’t know what to do about Holland’s drug culture.
21 November 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Baghdad’s Real Torturers | A harsh discovery puts U.S. pundits’ distorted reports in perspective.
21 November 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Solving the President’s New Orleans Problem | Feds should set the direction for recovery.
11 November 2005
Matt Rosenberg
Thugs on Parade | Why do white liberals accept the “gangsta” persona as a perfectly legitimate expression of black culture?
10 November 2005
October 2005
Steven Malanga
Bloomberg’s Pessimism | The mayor’s plan for Ground Zero assumes little future job growth.
26 October 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
The Expense of Spirit | A lesbian’s sperm donor is hoist with his own petard.
25 October 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Wrapping Islam in Europe’s Mantle | An artist asks: Should Europe want Turkey; should Turkey want Europe?
24 October 2005
Nicole Gelinas
A Fair Fare | The MTA should spread its holiday cheer year-round.
20 October 2005
Steven Malanga
Katrina and Pork | How congressional waste harmed New Orleans.
17 October 2005
September 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Gay Times | The no-longer-gray lady indulges its taste for not-fit-to-print news.
22 September 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
You Must Be Healthy | For British health officials, liberty doesn’t count.
20 September 2005
Steven Malanga
New Orleans vs. New York? | Even with costly hurricane cleanup, renewing Bush’s tax cuts will help Gotham’s economy—and the nation’s.
15 September 2005
Heather Mac Donald
The Racism Charges Won’t Wash | The Katrina donations—$788 million-worth—are colorblind.
14 September 2005
Nicole Gelinas
A Perfect Storm of Lawlessness | New Orleans’ vicious looters aren’t the real face of the city’s poor—their victims are.
1 September 2005
August 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Will New Orleans Recover? | Weak and struggling before Katrina, the good-time city now teeters on the brink.
31 August 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Further Feminist Foolishness | A famous writer sees little difference between British women 50 years ago and Muslim women today.
29 August 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Ethical Pornographers? | Two Norwegians’ perverse campaign to save the rain forests.
26 August 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Bulldozing Small Businesses | Three Democratic mayoral candidates would willfully destroy small businesses in Brooklyn—and they’re only going along with the Republican mayor’s plan.
24 August 2005
July 2005
Nicole Gelinas
How Not to Fight Urban Terror | The mayor wants New Yorkers to use their eyes and ears—but his fuss over last weekend’s tour-bus kerfuffle will dissuade them.
29 July 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
The Triumph of Reason? | Why bad theories never die
27 July 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
P*ss Off, Copper | Why don’t we do it in the road?
26 July 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Harvard's New Old-Girl Network | The feminist bean-counters take control.
25 July 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Mixed-up Malaysia | In this modernizing nation, harsh Islamic laws and loosening mores uneasily coexist.
21 July 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Through a Tunnel Darkly | Governor Pataki should shine a searchlight on MTA security.
19 July 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Cameras and Counterterrorism | Despite the privacy advocates’ claims, public spaces are public—fortunately.
18 July 2005
Katherine Ernst
Screwy NARAL | What do feminists really want?
14 July 2005
Steven Malanga
Where Freakonomics Errs | The recent bestseller’s theories on the fall in crime are dubious.
11 July 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Phew, No Olympic Gold for New York | Believe it or not, New York was too capitalist to win.
7 July 2005
Steven Malanga
Public Benefit? | The Supreme Court’s Kelo decision is a lose-lose proposition.
1 July 2005
June 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Imminent domain? | Not yet. It’s not too late for state politicians to stop themselves from stealing New Yorkers’ property.
30 June 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Harlem Kids Rising | Gotham’s first generation of charter-school kids is on its way to middle school.
27 June 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Cheating Great Teachers | It’s past time for merit pay for Gotham’s public school teachers
16 June 2005
Katherine Ernst
Barbara Boxer, Bully | The California senator twists herself into knots to oppose Bush nominees.
9 June 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Pity Harvard’s Oppressed Women Profs | Oh, how they suffer!
8 June 2005
Nicole Gelinas
West Side Profits? | Maybe, but let private investors take the risk.
3 June 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Harvard’s Diversity Grovel | In earmarking $50 million for “diversity,” President Summers is throwing away more than money.
3 June 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Missing the Point | Banning sharp kitchen knives won’t cut Britain’s violent crime.
2 June 2005
May 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Criminal Mischief | The New York Times romanticizes violent felons into impulsive hipsters.
24 May 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Thomas Friedman Mismeasures Tony Blair | The prime minister is a poor model for U.S. Democrats
3 May 2005
April 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Squaring Circles | The French can still reason their way to falsehood.
29 April 2005
Katherine Ernst
Lil’ Kim 101 | A clown act joins the academic follies.
25 April 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Blair’s Banana Republic? | A new Labour Party scheme to allow voting by mail is a recipe for corruption.
19 April 2005
Heather Mac Donald
The Patriot Act Is No Slippery Slope | Protecting ourselves doesn’t lead to tyranny.
8 April 2005
March 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Pension Funds vs. Free Speech | Public retirement-fund trustees try to stifle debate on Social Security reform.
30 March 2005
Steven Malanga
Antiglobal Terroirism | Two new films use Michael Moore–style mendacity to decry the evils of capitalism.
23 March 2005
Kay S. Hymowitz
Maureen, Queen of Mean | For Maureen Dowd, it’s still high school.
15 March 2005
Edward Feser
Alfred Kinsey: The American Lysenko | A biopic and a PBS documentary whitewash the life and record of this fraudulent pervert.
8 March 2005
February 2005
Steven Malanga
NYC Pols Save Us from Prosperity | It almost looked like we’d have to take more jobs and revenue from (gasp!) . . . Wal-Mart!
25 February 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Feminists Get Hysterical | First it was Harvard vs. Summers—and now Estrich vs. Kinsley.
24 February 2005
Katherine Ernst
AIDS, Sex, and Drugs | Gay activists are preaching the wrong message.
18 February 2005
Steven Malanga
Upstate Taxpayers Say, Enough! | Will pols heed their revolt?
17 February 2005
Steven Malanga
No Choice But Raising Taxes? | In New York and New Jersey, that’s a lie.
16 February 2005
Myron Magnet
“The Gates” on the Road to Serfdom | There’s a whiff of totalitarianism in Christo’s scheme.
14 February 2005
Katherine Ernst
Not Your Father’s Churchill | You couldn’t make up faculty antics like these.
4 February 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Welfare-to-Work’s New Thrust | Germany looks to the oldest profession to get people off the dole.
3 February 2005
January 2005
Howard Husock
Today, Guns Are Butter | The Dems’ criticism of the Bush budget doesn’t wash.
31 January 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Britain’s Sham Unemployment Drop | The U.K. goes further down the road to serfdom.
28 January 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Every Interrogation Is Not Abu Ghraib | Administration critics focus on techniques the Pentagon has forbidden.
27 January 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Tortured Logic on Torture | Andrew Sullivan misinterprets Abu Ghraib
25 January 2005
Myron Magnet
Walter B. Wriston, 1919–2005 | A great banker, New Yorker, and friend
21 January 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Sham Diversity | Jamaican homosexuals and the limits of liberal tolerance.
19 January 2005
Steven Malanga
Jersey’s Urban Meltdown | The problem isn’t sprawl; it’s collapsing cities.
19 January 2005
Heather Mac Donald
A further response to Sullivan |
14 January 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald responds to Andrew Sullivan’s “Lederman on Water-Boarding” |
13 January 2005
Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald responds to Marty Lederman on Abu Ghraib and U.S. interrogation policies: |
13 January 2005
William J. Stern
New York Pols vs. Bush’s Tax Plan | Have New York’s congressional leaders become tax cutters? Not a chance.
12 January 2005
Steven Malanga
Businessman-Mayor Turns Pol | Bloomberg’s first campaign volley isn’t what his constituency wants to hear.
11 January 2005
Theodore Dalrymple
Trying to Offend | A little common sense would have eased a conflict between free expression and community sensitivities.
5 January 2005
November 2004
Sol Stern
Potemkin Education Reform | Bloomberg and Klein offer more of the same instead of real change.
17 November 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Why Theo Van Gogh Was Murdered | The filmmaker focused on the shameful abuse of Muslim women by Muslim men in Europe.
15 November 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
The Sob Factor | Quiet grief and private dignity are now things of the past.
11 November 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Les intellos Speak | For French elites, George W. Bush’s re-election signals the start of fascism in America.
10 November 2004
October 2004
Howard Husock
Reining in Housing Vouchers | New York at last takes steps to reform its dependency fostering public housing system.
26 October 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Kafka’s Victory | Add the EU to the welfare state, and simple problems become insoluble.
18 October 2004
September 2004
Heather Mac Donald
Time to Take Illegal Immigration Seriously | The newsweekly dramatically breaks with elite orthodoxy.
16 September 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Jihad Chic | Over the suicide belt, it’s a mixed fashion statement.
13 September 2004
Charles Upton Sahm
The Fundamental Choice | What do the candidates see as their duty on terror?
1 September 2004
August 2004
Myron Magnet
Gotham, GOP Poster Child | Why New York is the right place for the Republican Convention
24 August 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Who Needs Parents? | Britain’s latest effort to undermine the family
12 August 2004
July 2004
Howard Husock
The Anti-war Hero | Opposition and protest, not mature leadership, have defined John Kerry’s political career.
30 July 2004
William J. Stern
Questionable Authorities | State Comptroller Hevesi needs to clean up New York’s corrupt public authorities
22 July 2004
Charles Upton Sahm
Bush and Blacks | The message—both in words and action—is clear, consistent, and stirring.
21 July 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Leftist of Privilege | How the press loves a moneyed radical!
20 July 2004
Steven Malanga
Let Them Eat Minimum Wage | How a group of Gotham business leaders plans to help the poor.
16 July 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Curing the Soul | Alcoholism is a vice, not a fate.
15 July 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Selective Memory | For British elites, the distant past excuses the bad behavior of the present.
6 July 2004
June 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Addicted to Self | What would illegal drug users give up to fight terror?
28 June 2004
Steven Malanga
The Tort Plague Hits Wal-Mart | A federal judge dignifies a flimsy claim.
24 June 2004
May 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
London’s Bonfire of the Vanities | Much of the Saatchi Collection goes up in smoke.
28 May 2004
Steven Malanga
Albany’s Medical Monkey Business | State solons are making New York’s already expensive health-care system pricier still.
19 May 2004
May 2005
Nicole Gelinas
Where’s All the School Money Going? | New York City Council’s Eva Moskowitz asks some tough questions about the city’s education spending.
18 May 2005
March 2004
Heather Mac Donald
How New York Evades Welfare Reform | Governor Pataki’s push to close loopholes in New York’s welfare system roils the advocates.
29 March 2004
February 2004
Denis Boyles
Garlic Press | It stinks when it takes blogsites and papers named after ducks to keep the French press somewhat honest.
23 February 2004
Howard Husock
Hope on Housing Policy | President Bush’s new housing voucher plan aims to move families up and out of assisted housing.
11 February 2004
January 2004
Heather Mac Donald
When Cops Err | It wasn’t racism that killed Timothy Stansbury.
29 January 2004
William J. Stern
Spitzer’s Next Target | New York’s attorney general takes a first step toward attacking political corruption.
28 January 2004
Sol Stern
The Iron Chancellor | Joel Klein starts sounding Orwellian.
23 January 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
Lo, the Poor Terrorist | For some on the Left, purported bigotry against Muslims explains Islamist terror.
20 January 2004
Steven Malanga
Deadly Medicine | A new health-insurance plan threatens New York’s small business.
14 January 2004
Sol Stern
Joel Klein’s Figleaf | Chancellor Klein’s begrudging nod to phonics
9 January 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
A Right to Trashy TV | A new proposal threatens to sink British social policy to another new low.
8 January 2004
Theodore Dalrymple
The Case for Cannibalism | If everything is permissible between consenting adults, why not?
5 January 2004
December 2003
Stefan Kanfer
Britzophrenia | Contemporary England’s two faces.
11 December 2003
November 2003
Steven Malanga
Shocked—Shocked—by High Taxes | Will the CBC’s new report get Empire State lawmakers to act?
21 November 2003
Steven Malanga
After the Nonpartisan Debacle | Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki should wake up and be Republican.
7 November 2003
Steven Malanga
Why CBS Should Air The Reagans | It can only harm left-wing ideologues.
6 November 2003
Brian C. Anderson
Another Victory for the New Conservative Media | More evidence that the Left’s monopoly on opinion is over.
5 November 2003
October 2003
Julia Magnet
Cosmo Says No to Sex | A cheerleader of the sexual revolution has second thoughts.
27 October 2003
Steven Malanga
What Gotham Needs from Washington | The mayor and the New York City Partnership can’t figure it out.
24 October 2003
Heather Mac Donald
Wimping Out on Welfare | The Bloomberg administration wants to cut the heart out of welfare reform.
15 October 2003
July 2003
Brian C. Anderson
Silence of the Alarms | New York may be the first city in the nation to ban car alarms. It’s high time.
10 July 2003
October 2003
Heather Mac Donald
Gotham Wins One Against the Homeless Industry | An important court decision will enable the city to help the homeless stay off the streets.
1 October 2003
September 2003
Heather Mac Donald
Mac Donald Fires Back | The debate with Reason magazine continues . . .
15 September 2003
Steven Malanga
Two Years Later . . . | New life is stirring at Ground Zero.
11 September 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
The Multi-Culti Barbarian | Has multicultural indoctrination made us less sensitive to the mores of different societies?
9 September 2003
August 2003
Sol Stern
Mayor Bloomberg’s Diana Lam Problem | Bad enough that the deputy schools’ chancellor embraces discredited pedagogical approaches. Now ethical questions surround her too.
21 August 2003
Heather Mac Donald
The NYPD’s Blackout Success | The real reason New York was so peaceful during the blackout: good policing.
20 August 2003
Steven Malanga
Summer of Sanity | How Gotham has changed since the blackout of 1977.
19 August 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
The Europe of Yesterday | The ghosts of the past still haunt the
European Union.
6 August 2003
July 2003
Steven Malanga
Smoke and Mirrors | The health department’s stats on jobs and the smoking ban don’t add up.
28 July 2003
Heather Mac Donald
The War on the War on Terror Continues | The Times twists the truth to discredit the Justice Department.
25 July 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
The Real World | . . . without a TV screen
11 July 2003
June 2003
Stefan Kanfer
The Clintonistas Return! | As usual, with spin, not truth
18 June 2003
Steven Malanga
A Fine Mess | Bloomberg’s plan to boost revenue by increasing fines is a wrong-headed shakedown.
2 June 2003
Harry Stein
Culture War on the Links | For the Times, liberal advocacy is par for the course, even in the sports pages.
2 June 2003
May 2003
Iain Murray
Getting Hitched | Social-services advocates pooh-pooh the idea of promoting marriage among the poor. New research demolishes their arguments.
30 May 2003
Sol Stern
Ah, those Black Panthers! How Beautiful! | The New York Times’s racial mendacity hits yet another new low.
27 May 2003
Brian C. Anderson
Schumerism | The New York senator’s view that there’s no difference between law and politics is at the heart of the judicial crisis.
21 May 2003
Steven Malanga
Forty-Third Street’s Fiscal Fantasies | When it comes to Gotham’s budget, the New York Times can’t count.
15 May 2003
Myron Magnet
Taxi Busters | The Bloomberg administration has begun a misguided war on livery cabs.
14 May 2003
Heather Mac Donald
L’affaire Blair | At the paper of record, it seems, ideology trumps truth.
13 May 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
Missing the Big Issue | You can’t rehabilitate prisoners unless you try.
7 May 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
The Multi-Culti Menu | Multiculturalism doesn’t discriminate—between right and wrong, true and false, or anything else.
6 May 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
Swept Away | According to Lemrick Nelson’s “40-ounce” defense, nobody is ever guilty of anything.
2 May 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
A Revealing Exchange . . . | . . . discloses an upside down moral universe.
2 May 2003
Howard Husock
When They Say “Community,” Watch Your Wallet | The Bush administration’s dividend tax cut proposal showed up the Low Income Housing Tax Credit as a sham.
2 May 2003
April 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
Blaming the Victim | For British psychiatrists, the real victims are those behind bars.
25 April 2003
Steven Malanga
Downtown Rebuilding Gets Serious | Governor Pataki, taking charge at last, offers a plan and a timetable that make sense.
25 April 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
France’s Headscarf Problem | How should a western democracy accommodate Islam?
23 April 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
“There Was Violence Used” | For today’s liberals, crime is like the weather—it has nothing to do with human agency.
21 April 2003
Steven Malanga
Needed: Business Leadership in Gotham | With friends like the Partnership for New York City, Gotham business doesn’t need enemies.
11 April 2003
Sol Stern
Gotham’s Education Reform Is in Trouble | It’s time to jettison the much-touted new reading program—and the deputy chancellor who promoted it.
11 April 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
Less Than Zero Tolerance | The British approach will give this idea a bad name.
9 April 2003
Sol Stern
Bloomberg and Klein Rush In | Under these two, mayoral control of Gotham’s schools threatens disaster.
8 April 2003
Steven Malanga
Lobbying Takes to the Airwaves | Why groups that depend on the taxpayers are running scare ads.
1 April 2003
March 2003
Heather Mac Donald
Can’t We All Just Stay Home? | War protests divert police resources from homeland security and endanger us all.
28 March 2003
Heather Mac Donald
What’s a Cop’s Life Worth? | Race changes the equation.
14 March 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
Treating Burglars | England’s chief justice seems to think burglary is not a crime but a disease.
13 March 2003
Steven Malanga
Broadway Blues | The musicians’ union’s no-show work rules are a long-running scandal.
12 March 2003
Matthew Clavel
How Not to Teach Math | New York’s chancellor Klein’s plan doesn’t compute.
7 March 2003
February 2003
Steven Malanga
Let Estrada Turn the Tables on Schumer | If this talented Republican doesn’t win confirmation, let him run against his tormentor for the Senate.
28 February 2003
Julia Magnet
London Peace Marchers Say: Long Live the Intifada | Whose friends are these?
17 February 2003
Kay S. Hymowitz
Dying for Love in the Middle East | CJ reviews Norma Khouri’s Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan.
14 February 2003
Howard Husock
Real Public Housing Reform | The Bush administration’s plans are quietly revolutionary.
12 February 2003
Theodore Dalrymple
UK Profs Nix Israel | Their sympathy for Arabs is one more example of compassion as contempt.
4 February 2003
January 2003
Steven Malanga
Bloomberg Doesn’t Put His Money Where His Mouth Is | The businessman mayor’s firm is part of the exodus from Gotham.
22 January 2003
Sol Stern
Mayor Bloomberg’s No Excuses Speech | The mayor’s revolutionary plans to reform Gotham schools are inspiring.
17 January 2003
William J. Stern
What Gangs of New York Misses | Director Martin Scorsese’s violent tale of gang warfare in nineteenth-century New York ignores the dramatic transformation of the city’s Irish underclass into mainstream citizens.
14 January 2003
Steven Malanga
Pataki Comes to His Senses | The governor returns to his original tax-cutting conservatism.
10 January 2003
Steven Malanga
The Left’s New Urban Agenda | Frustrated in Washington, leftist advocacy groups are using cities to push their program. Their latest target: the War on Terror.
9 January 2003
December 2002
Stefan Kanfer
Hollywood Follies | Brave actors oppose a war with Iraq!
31 December 2002
Steven Malanga
Postmodern Monstrosities for Downtown | The newest proposals for Ground Zero understand nothing about New York.
30 December 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Slavery Reparations Hit Gotham | A new City Council bill is wildly unjust and would scare more businesses out of the city.
17 December 2002
Steven Malanga
Time to Privatize the Buses | Injecting competition into Gotham’s public transit system would save money and protect the city from union blackmail.
17 December 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Holiday Homelessness Hype | Gotham’s mendacious homelessness industry is back in force. Mayor Bloomberg needs to set the advocates straight.
3 December 2002
November 2002
Kay S. Hymowitz
Robos in Paradise | Aging rockers embrace family values and bourgeois respectability.
26 November 2002
Heather Mac Donald
A Green Light to Spy on Americans? Nonsense. | Don’t believe the mainstream press’s account of the latest court decision on intelligence sharing.
25 November 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
The People’s Princess | The latest revelations about Princess Diana reflect poorly on her and on the celebrity cult that surrounds her.
19 November 2002
Sol Stern
Compassionate Conservatism’s Next Step | The president should jump-start school reform with a D.C. vouchers program.
15 November 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
Goodbye to Prison Discipline | The meddlesome European Court of Human Rights undermines order in Britain’s prisons.
12 November 2002
Steven Malanga
Eleven Myths About Gotham's Budget | The belief that you need tax hikes to solve New York’s fiscal woes rests on confusion over why the city’s budget is so out of whack.
11 November 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
The New Inquisitors | In today’s England, officials demand proper deference to multiculti pieties.
5 November 2002
October 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Back to the Past on Welfare | New York’s clueless City Council is set to gut welfare reform.
25 October 2002
Steven Malanga
Dinkins Redux? | Mayor Bloomberg says New York might need new taxes to solve its budget crisis. He’s wrong.
21 October 2002
Stefan Kanfer
Peace at any Prize | Dictator-coddling ex-president Jimmy Carter’s Nobel Peace Prize puts him in the company he deserves.
17 October 2002
Sol Stern
School Daze | Their new contract makes Gotham’s teachers spend more time in the classroom. But they’re frittering that time away.
17 October 2002
September 2002
Stefan Kanfer
Springtime for Schröder and Germany | The International Relations Follies of 2002!
24 September 2002
Steven Malanga
A Foolish Capitulation on Gardens | The Bloomberg administration’s conciliatory style may not be such a good thing.
20 September 2002
Matthew J. Dockery
The City Is the Monument | A resurgent Gotham would itself be a fitting memorial to those who died last September 11.
11 September 2002
Farrukh Dhondy
London Muslims “Celebrate” 9/11 | Jihadist mullahs urge 1,000 followers to learn the murderous lessons of the WTC attack.
11 September 2002
August 2002
Steven Malanga
How Not to Solve New York’s Housing Woes | Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Carl McCall’s housing development plan is hopeless.
26 August 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
How Not to Encourage Assimilation | English educators are rebuilding the Tower of Babel.
13 August 2002
Steven Malanga
Heroic Gotham Surrenders to Defeatism | The debate about the World Trade Center site is all about emphasizing loss and victimization, rather than reaffirming New York’s strengths.
14 August 2002
Stefan Kanfer
Sontagism | The queen of knee-jerk anti-Americanism strikes again.
7 August 2002
Jay P. Greene
The Special-Ed Hoax | Schools claim to be swamped by a growing number of disabled students, but it’s a myth.
2 August 2002
July 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
Behind the Veil | An outbreak of militant Islam contained in a British medical school.
30 July 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
The British Left Goes Anti-Semitic | Socialism and anti-Semitism are closely related worldviews.
23 July 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
Crime is Law, Law is Crime | The disaffected Muslim youth of Lille, France are at war with society.
18 July 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
Theory vs. Reality? The French Choose Theory | European elites refuse to see the connection between family breakdown and spiraling crime.
15 July 2002
Sol Stern
Who Should Run Gotham’s Schools? | The new chancellor needs the courage and vision to break completely with the system’s failed past.
14 July 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Ashcroft’s Racial Profiling Problem | The attorney general has more important tasks than proving he’s not a racist.
12 July 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
That’s Mister Hyde to You | These days, the respectable get no respect—and the disrespectable do.
11 July 2002
Steven Malanga
Pataki’s WTC Monumental Folly | An eight-acre memorial to the 9/11 victims is too big.
3 July 2002
Victor Davis Hanson
A Ray of Arab Candor | A U. N. report by Middle-Eastern intellectuals blames Arab culture and Arab tyranny for Arab problems.
3 July 2002
June 2002
Sol Stern
An Epochal Victory for Kids | The Supreme Court’s voucher decision gives new hope to inner-city pupils.
28 June 2002
Steven Malanga
Lead Paint Malarkey | Though advocates still cry wolf, New York City has all but eliminated the lead poisoning scourge.
19 June 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Hardball with Terrorists | Bleeding heart advocates and journalists still don’t get that we’re at war.
11 June 2002
Steven Malanga
New York, Still the Opportunity City | Though you wouldn’t know it from reading the New York Times, new census data show a vast expansion of Gotham’s middle class during the 1990s.
7 June 2002
May 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
A Terrorist Returns | A distinguished London academic institution rolls out the red carpet for a Palestinian hijacker.
31 May 2002
Steven Malanga
Stagflation Hits New York | Housing and health-care regulation hamper recession-gripped Gotham’s recovery.
18 May 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Backsliding on Welfare | The Bloomberg administration flirts with a discredited approach to welfare reform.
13 May 2002
Kay S. Hymowitz
U.N. Fairy Tales About Children | The East-River chatterers should put human rights before children’s rights.
7 May 2002
Heather Mac Donald
The SAT Comes Full Circle | Proposed changes in the Big Test guarantee more racial special-pleading.
6 May 2002
Harry Stein
The Feminists’ Big Lie | . . . and the women it harmed.
3 May 2002
April 2002
E. Fuller Torrey
Failing the Mentally Ill | New York State’s richly funded mental-health system needs fixing.
30 April 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Amnesty International Travesty | The human-rights advocacy group is wrong to condemn America’s detention of illegal aliens.
26 April 2002
Stefan Kanfer
The Israel-Bashing Media | Here’s the newest bias of the mainstream press.
26 April 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
How PC Boosts Le Pen | The French demagogue won by addressing reasonable concerns about Arab immigration and French identity that other politicians ducked.
25 April 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
Nanny Knows Best | In Britain, the state is infantalizing everybody.
24 April 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Get Rid of Gotham’s Human Rights Commission | Instead of gutting essential services, Mayor Bloomberg should close this useless agency.
23 April 2002
Steven Malanga
Tax Servitude | It’s taking more workdays than ever for New Yorkers to earn enough to pay their taxes.
19 April 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
The Morality of Terror | . . . assumes that the means justify the end.
16 April 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
Trivializing the Holocaust II | Auschwitz Isn’t a Metaphor.
12 April 2002
Steven Malanga
Recession-Proof Nonprofits | New York’s ever-expanding nonprofits are sucking the vitality out of the private-sector economy.
11 April 2002
Kay S. Hymowitz
Maybe It’s Time for Abstinence | Study shows sex ed and contraception-on-demand make kids less sexually responsible.
8 April 2002
Stefan Kanfer
How to Trivialize the Holocaust | The Jewish Museum’s “Mirroring Evil” is the most offensive show in town.
3 April 2002
March 2002
John H. McWhorter
The Reparations Racket | America has already made amends for slavery.
29 March 2002
Howard Husock
A Public Housing Victory | The Supreme Court helps restore the social order in poor neighborhoods.
29 March 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Look at the Evidence | Rebutting OpinionJournal
29 March 2002
Heather Mac Donald
The Racial Profiling Myth Debunked | New data show City Journal was right—there’s no credible evidence that racial profiling exists.
27 March 2002
Heather Mac Donald
Welfare Reform in the Balance | New York’s new welfare commish sometimes sounds like a Dinkins-era throwback.
21 March 2002
Jay P. Greene
Why Vouchers are Constitutional | . . . and why we need them.
14 March 2002
Steven Malanga
Gotham’s quicker-than-expected recovery | . . . six months after September 11.
11 March 2002
Steven Malanga
Venture Capitalists Still Like Gotham | . . . and are putting their money in its high-tech firms.
3 March 2002
February 2002
Kay S. Hymowitz
The Weaker Sex? | Putting to rest the feminist shibboleth that our culture silences girls
27 February 2002
Howard Husock
Don’t Hike Gotham’s Cab Fares | Why Bloomberg’s plan is wrong.
26 February 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
The Most Politically Correct Magazine in the World | . . . weighs in on the causes of war.
25 February 2002
Myron Magnet
London’s Crime Wave | . . . and why it’s surging.
20 February 2002
Theodore Dalrymple
The Economist Sees No Evil | . . . while crime and disorder lap at its London doorstep.
20 February 2002
Steven Malanga
What Happened to the Businessman Mayor? | Bloomberg’s 2002 budget wimps out.
19 February 2002
