Spring 2024
From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States
Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency
Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline
A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness
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.
Dalrymple on Books and Writers—From the City Journal archives
Her cast of mind has triumphed among the elites of the Western world.
To read Stefan Zweig is to learn what, through stupidity and evil, we progressively lost in the twentieth century.
Whenever we consult his works, we come away with a deeper insight into the heart of our own mystery.
For the great novelist, art, entertainment, and moral purpose were one.
The unjustly neglected Rhys Davies wrote about human frailty with compassion.
Novelist J. G. Ballard exposes the fragility of the affluent society.
Linguistically inventive, socially prescient, and philosophically profound, A Clockwork Orange comes close to being a work of genius.
The novelist explores the tensions of living in a multicultural city.
Arthur Koestler’s life and work embodied the existential dilemmas of our age.
The great Norwegian playwright was both a cause and a symptom of social change—and like many such figures, he was partly right and largely wrong.
The Spotlight
Why are college students seeking mental-health services in record numbers?
Merely opposing the Left’s hegemonic power is not enough.
The Fed should abandon inflation targeting and return to pursuing price stability.
Tributes from City Journal writers
Nearly 2,000 years after it was written, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is rediscovered by each succeeding generation.
The federal government can’t account for $21 trillion—but does anybody care?
Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare.
Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.
America’s crime policies and soft border are enabling its enemies.