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Looking Back on October 7

Eitan Fischberger Murdering Euphemism

How Hamas finally exposed the mainstream media’s apologia

Oct 09 2023
Martin Gurri In Israel, the Death of an Illusion

Was the Jewish state lulled into slumber by a false sense of normality?

Oct 09 2023
Neil Rogachevsky The New Israel, and the Old

Citizens of the Jewish state must recover the single-minded attention to security that typified their country’s early days.

Andrew A. Michta A Wake-Up Call for America, Too

Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel is part of an unfolding great-power conflict.

Oct 10 2023
Liel Leibovitz American Banlieue

We need to extinguish the fires of tribalism before they burn us all up.

Oct 24 2023
Shlomo Brody All Options Grim

No choice that Israel makes can avoid civilian casualties—a reality that will test the support of the civilized world.

Oct 17 2023
Theodore Dalrymple Genocidal Imaginations

As ever, the barbarians are within the gates.

Oct 12 2023
Guy Sorman A Return to the Wars of Religion

Viewing current conflicts through the lens of faith can help us see things more clearly.

Oct 12 2023

From City Journal’s Symposium Series

Which Way the University?

A symposium on higher education in the United States

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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The Spotlight

Jonathan Clarke Your New York, and Mine

The ambivalence of life in a great city

Mar 15 2024
Daniel DiSalvo The Unsolvable City

Revisiting the still-controversial work of urbanist Edward Banfield can help put race relations, education, housing, crime, and other policy debates into a broader perspective.

Nov 03 2023
Brian Patrick Eha The End of Men’s Magazines

As increasing numbers of American males seem adrift, they can no longer look to venerable publications for guidance.

Laura Vanderkam Journey Through the Checkout Racks

Comparing women’s magazines, then and now, shows how much America has changed.

Michael J. Totten The Universe Is Not a Fairy Tale

The Chinese sci-fi trilogy that spawned Netflix’s 3 Body Problem suggests that maybe humanity would be better off alone.

Aug 30 2024
James B. Meigs The Chump Effect

Progressive policies penalize those who play by the rules and shower benefits on those who don’t.

Hadley Arkes The Lost Structures of Civility

Looking back on a Chicago childhood in the 1940s

Heather Mac Donald The Media’s Color-Coded Parenting Standard

White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless.

Dec 09 2021
Charles F. McElwee Chain Migration Comes to Hazleton

The working-class Pennsylvania city is struggling to adapt to a heavy influx of Hispanics from New York.

Steven Malanga Our Vanishing Ultimate Resource

Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?

Ian Penman Grave New World

Ernst Jünger’s unblinking literary vision captured an age of technology, political upheaval, and destruction.

James Piereson The Playbook for Lawfare

Watergate and Nixon’s resignation, 50 years on

Aug 07 2024
Lance Morrow Profane Reality, Sacred Memory

Reflecting on Bobby Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination

Peter C. Myers Black Lives Matter Comes to the Classroom

Activists bring the movement’s spirit and ideology into a growing number of secondary and even elementary schools.

Theodore Kupfer College Football’s Twilight

The sport as we know it is changing forever.

Sep 02 2022
Christos A. Makridis, Morris M. Kleiner License to Work

States are waking up to the high costs that occupational-licensing laws impose on their workers and economies.

Feb 23 2024
Edward L. Glaeser The War on Work—and How to End It

An agenda to address joblessness, the great American domestic crisis of the twenty-first century

Steven Malanga Dirty Jobs, Good Pay

Reality TV star Mike Rowe and others seek to revive the American work ethic.