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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

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Doom Studies—Michael J. Totten on disasters human and natural

Michael J. Totten Off the Richter Scale

Can the Pacific Northwest prepare for the cataclysmic quake that’s coming?

Michael J. Totten A Tidal Wave of Death

The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions.

Michael J. Totten The Enduring Relevance of The Plague

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

Michael J. Totten The Last Communist City

A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see

The Spotlight

Kay S. Hymowitz Marriage and Caste

America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap.

Heather Mac Donald The Therapeutic Campus

Why are college students seeking mental-health services in record numbers?

Martin Gurri In Search of a Right Populist Agenda

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

Stephen Miran The Mismeasure of Money

The Fed should abandon inflation targeting and return to pursuing price stability.

Martin Gurri Everything Magnified

Why were the protests and riots of 2020 so explosive?

Fred Siegel Remembered

Tributes from City Journal writers

May 10 2023
Darran Anderson A Manual for Adversity

Nearly 2,000 years after it was written, Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is rediscovered by each succeeding generation.

Terrence Leveck America’s Missing Money

The federal government can’t account for $21 trillion—but does anybody care?

Feb 16 2018
Christopher F. Rufo Will It Be Riot Season Again in 2024?

Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare.

Dec 04 2023
Heather Mac Donald Kidneys Don’t See Color

Meritocratic medicine scores another triumph with a genetically modified pig kidney—but the STEM diversity crusade threatens to replace discovery with identity-driven mediocrity.

Apr 15 2024
Jim Fitzgerald, Thomas Hogan The Rising Terror Threat

America’s crime policies and soft border are enabling its enemies.

Apr 17 2024
Michael J. Totten Something Like Fire

Will the AI revolution warm us or burn us?