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From City Journal’s Symposium Series

Symposium: America’s Mental-Health Crisis

Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

Which Way the University?

A symposium on higher education in the United States

Fighting the Oldest Hate

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

Symposium: An Economic Agenda for the Next President

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

Symposium: A New Anticrime Agenda

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

How to Defeat Left-Wing Racialism

A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness

Movement:
New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car


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The Spotlight

John Tierney Won’t Get Fooled Again

After the pandemic, Americans should never let public-health authorities deprive them of their liberties.

Theodore Dalrymple The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris

Surrounding the City of Light are threatening Cities of Darkness.

Jonathan Clarke John Updike and the Politics of Literary Reputation

A decade after his death, one of our greatest literary stylists has fallen into critical disfavor.

Sep 24 2021
Victor Davis Hanson Some Coronavirus Humility

The pandemic may prove as bad as some warn; it is also possible that our response could prove as harmful as the virus itself.

Mar 16 2020
Ray Domanico Hallowed Ground

A venerable Catholic school in the Bronx has transformed the lives of generations of low-income, at-risk students.

Judge Glock How Debt Ate Chicago

Mounting liabilities are the greatest threat to the city’s survival.

Jacob Howland The Campus as Factory

Corporatist progressivism and the crisis of American higher education

Michael Torres “We Thought She Was a Great Teacher”

How a Washington public school’s transgender secrecy policies drove an immigrant family out of the country

Andrey Mir The Viral Inquisitor

Social media have unleashed a culture of instant judging.

James Panero Marx of the Libido

The destructive influence of Wilhelm Reich, father of the sexual revolution

Heather Mac Donald What’s Behind the AfD Party’s Rise in Germany

Critics call the populist party a threat to democracy, but many Germans aren’t buying it.

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John Tierney Well-Heeled Fliers Against Air-Traffic Reform

Corporate-jet and private-plane trade groups like the current system just fine—no matter how much it costs ordinary passengers.

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