City Journal Audio
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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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.
Anthony Fauci’s autobiography unwittingly reveals his transformation from an open-minded scientist to an imperious, unaccountable public-health bureaucrat.
Fearmongering from journalists, scientists, and politicians did more harm than the virus.
Widespread quarantines and shutdowns of industries have human costs, too.
The pandemic may prove as bad as some warn; it is also possible that our response could prove as harmful as the virus itself.
How America outsourced the materials of modern power—and what it will take to get them back
Far-left policies on policing, education, and taxation are pushing Los Angeles, Chicago, and others to the brink.
The destructive influence of Wilhelm Reich, father of the sexual revolution