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City Journal is America’s premier source of insightful policy analysis, sophisticated cultural commentary, and bold investigations that legacy journalists are too timid to touch. From incisive interviews to lively panel discussions, our podcasts extend CJ’s trademark rigor and wit beyond the written page to the dynamic world of streaming audio.
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Pandemic lockdowns and remote work have ignited the economies of small metro regions and rural areas, posing a challenge to big cities.
Seeking to “improve working conditions for delivery workers,” New York’s mayor is squelching opportunity instead.
Whatever role AI will play, sustained growth requires pro-innovation policies.
The late historian Fred Siegel saw families and economic opportunity as essential to urban life.
Puncturing some prominent myths of our age, from neoliberalism to anti-Americanism
The doctrine of deep ecology declares that we must keep our hands off the divine order of nature—even if it kills us.
Staten Island has long been an exception to the city’s liberal political culture and voting patterns.
Barack Obama and the vacuous politics of image
Journalist Murray Kempton’s left-conservatism abhorred greed, inequality, and sectarianism.
Novelist Jay McInerney captured the zeitgeist of New York a generation ago—and he’s still at it.
Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.
On both sides of the Atlantic, white professors think that suspending judgment when it comes to black scholars makes them good people.
The journalists and outlets that helped mobilize the hysteria back in 2006 shrug at Crystal Mangum’s belated admission of the obvious: it was all lies.
The disappointment expressed by some on the left about Jussie Smollett’s apparent hoax reveals their commitment to black victimhood.