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From the Spring 2023 Issue

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Max Eden, Michael Hartney Flunking the Equity Test

Surveys reveal that most Americans who support teaching critical race theory in schools don’t understand its principles.

John Ketcham New York’s Billion-Dollar Breakup?

Budget conflicts will test the partnership of Governor Kathy Hochul and Gotham mayor Eric Adams.

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From the Special Issue 2023: Can California Be Golden Again?

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Sarah F. Anzia Stranglehold

Public unions’ power over California municipalities has created a governing crisis.

Allison Schrager Can Silicon Valley Remake Itself?

Rising interest rates and the end of easy money threaten the tech mecca’s current model.

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Podcasts

City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson.

In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language.

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When Race Trumps Merit

The new book by Heather Mac Donald

Fred Siegel’s Wisdom

Longtime City Journal contributor and urban scholar Fred Siegel has died. His work is central to an understanding of American cities.

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Fred Siegel The Riot Ideology, Reborn

Baltimore, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the new racial politics

Fred Siegel The Liberal Top-Bottom Coalition

It started with Mayor Lindsay and continues with President Obama.

Fred Siegel Progressives Against Progress

The rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals’ historical optimism.

Fred Siegel The Godfather of American Liberalism

H. G. Wells: novelist, historian, authoritarian, anticapitalist, eugenicist, and advisor to presidents

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The Spotlight

Lance Morrow Walls, Doors, and Names

Memorial Day in an unnerved America

May 27 2022
Heather Mac Donald The Sidewalks of San Francisco

Can the City by the Bay reclaim public space from aggressive vagrants?

Robert VerBruggen The Influencer

Charles Murray’s social science is sometimes provocative, usually controversial, and always significant to the national debate.

Judith Miller The Best Little Art Colony in Texas

How Marfa, a town of barely 2,000 residents, became a tourist mecca

Martin Gurri In Search of a Right Populist Agenda

Merely opposing the Left’s hegemonic power is not enough.

Stephen Eide The Adams Homeless Deluge

Rising homelessness numbers in New York, due in part to the border crisis, create new challenges for the mayor.

Aug 23 2022
Kay S. Hymowitz The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies

Rejecting the Moynihan report caused untold, needless misery.

Judge Glock Can American Cities Manufacture Again?

Industry needs lower taxes and fewer regulations, rather than more economic-development policies.

Victor Davis Hanson The Oldest Divide

With roots dating back to our Founding, America’s urban-rural split is wider than ever.

Peter W. Huber Anthraxing New York

Government-controlled vaccine development has left us scarily vulnerable.

Michael J. Totten The Enduring Relevance of The Plague

Albert Camus’s postwar novel captures the existential dread of contagion.

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