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

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November 2009

Sandra Stotsky
Who Needs Mathematicians for Math, Anyway?
The American Conservative | 18 November 2009

William Voegeli
Club California Spends Our Dues Poorly
Fox & Hounds Daily | 18 November 2009

Sandra Stotsky
Math teaching without the math
Joanne Jacobs | 16 November 2009

William Voegeli
More on California Tax-Services Model
The Volokh Conspiracy | 9 November 2009

Judith Miller
More Walls To Tear Down
FoxNews.com | 9 November 2009

William Veogeli
Editorial Quick Hits: Theirs
The Detroit News | 7 November 2009

William Veogeli
Do we get our money's worth?
Bruce Ross’s Blog | 6 November 2009

William Voegeli
Recommended Reading: Texas vs. California
Texas Monthly BurkaBlog | 4 November 2009

William Voegeli
Where Are You, California Republicans?
The New Republic | 5 November 2009

William Voegeli
Club California: The Service Is Poor—But the Prices Are High!
Insider Online | 5 November 2009

Steven Malanga
Conservatives, End the Apology Tour
American Thinker | 4 November 2009

William Voegeli
California vs. Texas Part Deux
Jay P. Greene’s Blog | 2 November 2009

William Voegeli
The California versus Texas Model, and Public Choice
The Volokh Conspiracy | 2 November 2009

William Voegeli
The Glitter Fades from the Golden State
Wizbang | 2 November 2009

William Voegeli
Golden State a flop
Hot Air | 2 November 2009

William Voegeli
No, Thank You
From On High | 2 November 2009

William Voegeli
“California Dreamin’” becomes “I Got the Blue State Blues”
Roger L. Simon | 2 November 2009

William Voegeli
A Few Short Links
Claremont Conservative | 1 November 2009

William Voegeli
California vs. Texas: The Verdict Is In
Powerline | 1 November 2009

October 2009

Judith Miller
The Mexicanization of American Law Enforcement
Security Debrief | 29 October 2009

William Voegeli
California: Object Lesson in What Happens When Wish Becomes Father of Thought
No Left Turns | 29 October 2009

Nicole Gelinas
The Right and Financial Regulation
National Review Online | 28 October 2009

Luigi Zingales
The Right and Financial Regulation
National Review Online | 28 October 2009

Luigi Zingales
How The Republicans Can Get Their Groove Back
Mens News Daily | 28 October 2009

Sol Stern
In K-12 Education, We Could Do So Much So Easily
The Enterprise Blog | 27 October 2009

Sol Stern
Core Knowledge?
Eduwonk | 27 October 2009

Sol Stern
Knowledge matters
Joanne Jacobs | 26 October 2009

Theodore Dalrymple
Why the BNP thrives
Crunchy Con | 25 October 2009

Steven Malanga
Small Businesses to NYC: Get Off Our Backs!
No Land Grab | 19 October 2009

Brian C. Anderson
More from the Group
Durham-in-Wonderland | 12 October 2009

George Gilder
Israel: Home of Next Gen Internet
Jewish Journal | 6 October 2009

September 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Policing Skid Row
Patterico’s Pontifications | 29 September 2009

Benjamin A. Plotinsky
What We’re Reading . . .
Economix | 28 September 2009

Guy Sorman
Bowyer: Why Europe Recovers Before the US
CNBC | 25 September 2009

Guy Sorman
Japan’s Road to Harmonious Decline
Project Syndicate | 25 September 2009

Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Under Our Umbrella
World Mag | 25 September 2009

George Gilder
The Body Politic Electric
Slate | 25 September 2009

Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Neglecting the “pharmaceutical umbrella” that the U.S. provides
Betsy’s Page | 23 September 2009

George Gilder
Quote of the Day: Human Potential and Society
Mad Minerva 2.0 | 23 September 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Still handling homeland security with a 9/10 attitude
Michelle Malkin | 23 September 2009

Andrew Klavan
Corruption Daily Round-Up 09-23
Shout First, Ask Questions Later | 23 September 2009

Harry Stein
Surprise, Surprise. TIME Thinks Glenn Beck Is Bad for America.
Vital Signs | 23 September 2009

George Gilder
Israel, Existential Threats, and the Future of War
ShrinkWrapped | 23 September 2009

Andrew Klavan
The art of corruption
Power Line | 22 September 2009

Harry Stein
Time Mag Flashback 1995: ‘Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America?’
NewsBusters | 19 September 2009

Sol Stern
ACORN Getting Adult Supervision
Politics Daily | 16 September 2009

Sol Stern
Barack Obama: ACORN’s Manchurian Candidate?
Telegraph | 16 September 2009

Jerry Weinberger
Allergy-free eating choices are not a question of manners!
Examiner.com | 9 September 2009

Sol Stern
Teacher Bonuses Total $27 Million, Nearly Double Last Year’s
New York Times | 4 September 2009

Andrew Klavan
Romanticon: Wordsworth’s corpus reflects the growth of a conservative’s mind.
History News Network | 4 September 2009

August 2009

Nicole Gelinas
Lecturing Bernanke
Newsweek | 28 August 2009

Steven Malanga
Theroux on the American Road Trip
New York Times Idea Blog | 27 August 2009

Guy Sorman
Parlez-vous Francais?
State Policy Blog | 26 August 2009

Steven Malanga
The Robots are Coming, Atlantic Monthly Edition
Growthology | 26 August 2009

Guy Sorman
The Real Cost Of Health Care In France
Men’s News Daily | 26 August 2009

Guy Sorman
Vive Le French Care?
Investor’s Business Daily | 26 August 2009

Steven Malanga
Steven Malanga: Whatever happened to the work ethic? [MUST READ!]
AIPNews.com | 21 August 2009

Stephen T. Parente
Health care debate: The best ideas so far
Dallas Morning News | 6 August 2009

July 2009

André Glucksmann
What a Failed Georgia Means for Europe
Robert Amsterdam | 31 July 2009

Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales
Don’t Prop Up Wall Street
Reason | 30 July 2009

Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales
Stop Subsidizing The Street
Forbes | 29 July 2009

Jay Greene and Sol Stern
NYC’s Insane Teachers’ Contract
ABC News | 29 July 2009

Guy Sorman
Lemonade Stands, Business Instincts, and Surviving the Recession
Townhall.com | 29 July 2009

Heather Mac Donald
The Jail Inferno
Jack’s Newswatch | 28 July 2009

Stefan Kanfer
Booms and Busts
Wall Street Journal | 27 July 2009

Alain de Botton
The Glass Is Half Empty. Get Over It!
Righty Blog | 21 July 2009

Kay S. Hymowitz
Marriage and Children in Our New America
The New Ledger | 17 July 2009

Kay S. Hymowitz
Why Are People Waiting to Marry and Have Kids?
The Daily Dish | 16 July 2009

Marcus Winters
Performance pay is powerful
Joanne Jacobs | 16 July 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald on Ricci Bottom Line
American Civil Rights Institute | 15 July 2009

Guy Sorman
Dr. Bernanke’s Prescription
The American Spectator | 13 July 2009

Laura Vanderkam
When the police sponsor a school
Betsy’s Page | 9 July 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Law & Order
Ed Driscoll | 7 July 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald on the NYPD
New Paltz Journal | 7 July 2009

City Journal
Roadmap to Recovery
New York Post | 6 July 2009

Laura Vanderkam
LAPD High
Daily Policy Digest | 6 July 2009

June 2009

Nicole Gelinas
Mayor Warns on Pension Costs but Gave Pay Deals
New York Times | 22 June 2009

May 2009

Steven Malanga
Obsessive Housing Disorder, Government Efforts to Increase Home Ownership
The Volokh Conspiracy | 20 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Obsessive Housing Disorder & Compulsive Intervention Disorder
Michelle Malkin | 18 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Compulsive Intervention Disorder
Doug Ross @ Journal | 18 May 2009

Ibn Warraq and Michael Weiss
UN Human Rights Council: Friend of jihadists
Jihad Watch | 18 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Unions vs. Taxpayers
The Absurd Report | 17 May 2009

Fred Siegel
The Shape Of Sin To Come
Ed Driscoll | 16 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Unions vs. Taxpayers
Merle Widmer’s PEORIA WATCH | 16 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Unions vs. Taxpayers
TONY PHYRILLAS | 16 May 2009

Sol Stern
Pedagogy of the Oppressor
Arts & Letters Daily | 15 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Obsessive Housing Disorder: Nearly a century of Washington’s efforts to promote homeownership has produced one calamity after another
Newsalert | 14 May 2009

Steven Malanga
The housing mess has a long history
Collecting My Thoughts | 11 May 2009

Steven Malanga
Ability To Pay, Not Lack Of Income, Should Be The Lending Standard
Mens News Daily | 9 May 2009

Steven Malanga
ACORN is EVERYWHERE!
The American Spectator | 7 May 2009

Peter W. Huber
Open Minds and the Environmental Debate
WOWK TV | 7 May 2009

Claire Berlinski
The Iron Lady
The Claremont Institute | 5 May 2009

Jonathan Foreman
Mumbai Bounces Back
Forbes | 5 May 2009

Nicole Gelinas
Spendthrift Sunbelt States
Instapundit | 4 May 2009

April 2009

Guy Sorman
Anna Schwartz Indicts the Federal Reserve–Again
The Beacon | 30 April 2009

Sol Stern
Freire Is Foul and Foul is Freire
The Core Knowledge Blog | 27 April 2009

Peter Huber
Peter Huber’s prudent policies
AdamSmith.org | 27 April 2009

Sol Stern
Pedagogy of the oppressor
The Washington Times | 27 April 2009

Andrew Klavan
Get The Manifesto
Pajamas Media | 13 April 2009

Brian C. Anderson
The South Park Generation
Parcbench | 6 April 2009

E. J. McMahon
New York’s Budget Targets the Golden Eggs
Wall Street Journal | 3 April 2009

March 2009

Adam Thierer
The Great American Newspaper Bailout
Freedom Politics | 30 March 2009

Brian C. Anderson
Klavan on the Culture: Shut Up
Pajamas Media | 31 March 2009

Walter Olson
New Silicon Graffiti Video: “2009: A Book Banning Odyssey”
Ed Driscoll | 24 March 2009

Guy Sorman
Keeping the Peace
RealClearPolitics | 20 March 2009

Edward L. Glaeser
City Living Is Green: Why The Lorax Was Wrong
Huffington Post | 10 March 2009

Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Religion and SF in... City Journal?
SF Gospel | 5 March 2009

James Manzi
Taxing Innovation?
The Daily Dish | 5 March 2009

James Manzi
Why Obamanomics Will Hurt Innovation
Will Wilkinson | 4 March 2009

James Manzi
Destruction of the Creatives
Freedom Politics | 4 March 2009

James Manzi
The Pursuit of Social Democracy
The Atlantic | 4 March 2009

James Manzi
The Agony and Irony* of Taxes
Growthology | 4 March 2009

James Manzi
MORE ON Obamanomics
Instapundit | 4 March 2009

James Manzi
The Innovation Squelch
Ed Driscoll | 3 March 2009

Myron Magnet
In defense of anonymous Web posters
The Examiner | 3 March 2009

February 2009

Benjamin A. Plotinsky
Grammar falls victim to the cult of Obama
The Australian | February 28, 2009

Roger L. Simon
“Part of my leftism was a sales pitch”
Sisu | 26 February 2009

Nicole Gelinas
Lessons of Katrina
The Weekly Standard | 26 February 2009

Brian Anderson
Obama’s ‘media reforms’ akin to Fairness Doctrine
One News Now | 23 February 2009

Edward Glaeser
Save the environment: Build a tower!
Boston Herald | 22 February 2009

Walter Olson
Ed Driscoll interviews Walter Olson
PJM Political | 21 February 2009

Pietro Veronesi and Luigi Zingales
Geithner’s Toxic Plan
Freedom Politics | 20 February 2009

Walter Olson
Warning! Eating books could seriously damage your health
The Guardian | 20 February 2009

Walter Olson
New York Times on CPSIA: “needless fears that the law could injure smaller enterprises”
Overlawyered | 18 February 2009

Edward L. Glaeser
To Save the Planet, Build More . . . Skyscrapers?
Forum on Local Government | 18 February 2009

Walter Olson
CPSIA and vintage books, cont’d: slicing the past
Overlawyered | 17 February 2009

Steven Malanga
Patronage, squared: Obamaco to roll-back the clock on “Clinton” Welfare Reform
Protein Wisdom | 15 February 2009

Walter Olson
Children’s Book Banning
Between Two Worlds | 13 February 2009

Walter Olson
The Book Burning Begins
True Discernment | 13 February 2009

Edward L. Glaeser
Help the environment, stay in the city
The Examiner | 11 February 2009

Theodore Dalrymple
The Persistence of Ideology
Flynn Files | 9 February 2009

Kay S. Kymowitz
Buser: Meet the ‘man-child’
Kansan.com | 8 February 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald: Diversity targets for philanthropists are absurd
Dallas News | 6 February 2009

Stefan Kanfer
Another for the Stuffed Owl
bwcitypaper.com | 5 February 2009

Max Schulz
Be wary when they say ‘jobs’
The Wenatchee World Online | 4 February 2008

Guy Sorman
The New American Soldier
FrontPageMag | 3 February 2009

Guy Sorman
The Anaconda strategy
Pragmatic Euphony | 1 February 2009

January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Sitcom squelches Marie Curie
Joanne Jacobs | 30 January 2009

Nicole Gelinas
The credit crisis with pretty pictures
The New Zealand Herald | 28 January 2009

Daniel Freedman
Harry in Hot Water, Again
First Things | 27 Janaury 2009

Bruce Bawer
Fury in Holland Over Wilders Prosecution
Pajamas Media | 27 January 2009

Theodore Dalrymple
BOOKS: Taking measure of West’s decline
The Washington Times | 25 January 2009

Theodore Dalrymple
Taking measure of West’s decline
Washington Times | 25 January 2009

Nicole Gelinas
Momentum: The One Word Problem for the Economy (and the Solution)
The Provocateur | 23 January 2009

Bruce Bawer
Submission in the Netherlands
BennettMornings.com | January 23, 2009

Bruce Bawer
The most dangerous men
Pajamas Media | 23 January 2009

Michael Shermer
Irrational Economic Man
Freedom Politics | 19 January 2009

Marcus A. Winters
The Promise of School Reform
The Yorktown Patriot | 19 January 2009

Heather MacDonald
Eric Holder’s Attitude Toward the Police
Patterico’s Pontifications | 15 Janaury 2009

City Journal
Class Is the New Black
Mother Jones | January/February 2009

Shepard Barbash
Direct Answer
The New Republic | 14 January 2009

Brian C. Anderson
Polls do not reflect what we really prefer
The Valley News | 10 January 2009

André Glucksmann
The Postmodern Financial Crisis
Forbes | 10 January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Recession-Proof Diversity
Forbes | 10 January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Another trauma for Obama: Youth crime
Chicago Tribune | 7 January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Murder, Marriage, and Hamster Wheels
La Shawn Barber’s Corner | 7 January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
Even Heather Mac Donald Is Right Twice a Year
Mother Jones | 6 January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
How the New York Times Gets Crime Wrong
National Review Online | 6 January 2009

Heather Mac Donald
The Times’s Crime Confusions Persist
AmRen.com | 5 January 2009

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