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Summer 2023

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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America’s Cultural Revolution:
How the Radical Left Conquered Everything


New Book by Christopher F. Rufo

Christopher Rufo Show

Christopher Rufo is a conservative journalist who specializes in critical race theory, gender ideology, and the capture of America’s institutions. In this podcast series, he’s taking a deep look at the revolutionary changes consuming the United States—and what conservatives can do to fight back.

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When Race Trumps Merit


The new book by Heather Mac Donald

Special Issue 2023:
Can California Be Golden Again?

The Spotlight

Victor Davis Hanson Imagine There’s No Border

A world without boundaries is a fantasy.

John Steele Gordon Abolish the Corporate Income Tax

For more than a century, its complexity and perverse effects have worked to the detriment of the American economy.

Jonathan Meer The Wrong Tool for the Job

Hiking the minimum wage will neither enhance economic mobility nor alleviate poverty.

Springs Toledo 191 Edgecombe

Kid Norfolk and the bootstrap legacy of Harlem

Coleman Hughes How to Be an Anti-Intellectual

A lauded book about antiracism is wrong on its facts and in its assumptions.

Oct 27 2019
John Hirschauer The Last Institutions

In Pennsylvania, advocates and officials work to shutter state-run facilities that some have called home for decades.

Dec 27 2022
Rupert Murdoch The War on Technology

We’re headed for another American century—unless the technophobes prevail.

Steven Malanga The Cost of Bad Intentions

Progressive policies threaten a new era of urban dysfunction.

Michael Anton Tom Wolfe’s California

In the Golden State, the great writer first chronicled the social changes that would transform America.

James B. Meigs The Chump Effect

Progressive policies penalize those who play by the rules and shower benefits on those who don’t.

Brian Patrick Eha The Media and the Virus

American press coverage of Covid-19 was first dismissive, then alarmist—but always condescending.

George L. Kelling, William J. Bratton Why We Need Broken Windows Policing

It has saved countless New York lives—most of them minority—cut the jail population, and reknit the social fabric.

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