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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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Socialists have a larger presence on Chicago’s city council than on that of any other large American city.
The effort’s biggest cuts were to the civil service—and they worked.
The GOP has abandoned the Centennial State, but a looming left-wing civil war might reopen the frontier.
Automated license plate readers have become a political flashpoint. No one talks about the dozens of children they’ve rescued.
An executive order can restore the game to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American character.
Chuck Klosterman’s obsessive, passionate new book makes many arguments about the national game, including a prediction of its eventual demise.
The Innocents, the first and best film adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, is tough to beat for a Halloween film choice.
Past generations could no more live up to present moral standards than we could live up to those of the distant future.
Don’t listen to today’s narcissistic academics—the West’s cultural inheritance is indispensable.
Freedom of speech isn’t meaningful if we aren’t willing to listen.
The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys
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.
Sex-crimes prosecutor and novelist Linda Fairstein is shunned for her role in convicting the Central Park Five—a verdict that remains correct.