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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Get online updates: Search the website:	Heather Mac Donald California’s Demographic Revolution If the upward mobility of the impending Hispanic majority doesn’t improve, the state’s economic future is in peril. PODCAST: Heather Mac Donald discusses this story Nicole Gelinas Farewell to the Free Market? Western governments have compounded the economic crisis by rejecting the one force that can end it. Steven Malanga The Court That Broke Jersey The state’s activist judiciary has forced taxpayers to finance unprecedented educational and housing regimes. PODCAST: Steven Malanga discusses this story Tevi D. Troy The Last Sane Liberal Mayor Ed Koch’s practical progressivism saved Gotham’s finances and restored its spirit. Robert Bryce Get Dense It’s time to stop wasting land and resources in the name of environmentalism. PODCAST: Robert Bryce discusses this story Christian Schneider It’s Working in Walker’s Wisconsin The governor’s controversial labor reforms are already saving taxpayers millions. PODCAST: Christian Schneider discusses this story Sol Stern Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Israelophobia The great antitotalitarian thinker was no friend to the Jewish state. Coming Soon William Voegeli Not a Penny More The case for antitax absolutism Guy Sorman The New Rebellions Across the globe, technology-empowered protesters seek to disrupt the political and economic order. Bert Stratton The Landlord’s Tale A member of a maligned class explains, among other things, how he keeps up the neighborhood. Joel Kotkin and Shashi Parulekar The State of the Anglosphere The decline of the English-speaking world has been greatly exaggerated. Laura Vanderkam The Math of Khan Not just a YouTube phenomenon, but a model for educational transformation Myron Magnet When George Washington Became Great Those were the times that tried men’s souls. Brian C. Anderson In Prospect PODCAST: Brian C. Anderson reads this story Oh, to be in England Theodore Dalrymple The European Crack-Up Greeks aren’t Germans. Letters Contributors Diarist Claire Berlinksi Joie de Decline

John-Clark Levin & Charles C. Johnson Lessons from Claremont What the college’s SAT scandal tells us about oversight and accountability

Howard Husock The Myths of The Pruitt-Igoe Myth A new film laments the housing project’s failure for mostly the wrong reasons. 17 February 2012 Ryan L. Cole Give Me Posterity A new biography of Patrick Henry reveals a complicated but exemplary American. 17 February 2012 More . . .	Nicole Gelinas The Rental Mania That Wasn’t A New York Times article hypes the city’s apartment-rental market, with little evidence. 14 February 2012 Christian Schneider Minority Rule’s Last Gasp in Wisconsin Public-sector unions find a candidate to run against Scott Walker. 14 February 2012 More . . .
John H. McWhorter Toward a Usable Black History It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion. Summer 2001 KEEP READING

Heather Mac Donald California’s Demographic Revolution 12 February 2012 Steven Malanga The Court That Broke Jersey 6 February 2012 More . . .
Guy Sorman in American Review \| Understanding Populism Andrew Klavan in Wall Street Journal \| Gary Carter Showed Me How to Play the Game Sol Stern in NWA Online \| The Excellence Gap Heather Mac Donald in Fox & Hounds \| California's Demographic Revolution Christian Schneider in Washington Times \| Union political machine sputters in Wisconsin More . . .
Fred Siegel The Liberal Top-Bottom Coalition It started with Mayor Lindsay and continues with President Obama. Steven Greenhut Think Long Comes Up Short A new report calls for higher taxes in California. Judith Miller David Crane’s California Quest A nonpartisan group aims to elect “courageous” legislators in the Golden State. Kay S. Hymowitz Poverty and Newt Gingrich’s rhetoric was clumsy, but he was right about work and the poor. Steven Malanga Convention Wisdom Cities keep squandering money on hotels and meeting facilities. E. J. McMahon Cuomo’s Pivot The governor’s tax hike will harm New York’s competitiveness.