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From City Journal’s Symposium Series

Collections on race, crime, and the economy

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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Universities Face a Reckoning

Analysis and reporting on the crisis in higher education

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Christopher F. Rufo Exeter Under Ideology

Left-wing race and gender theory devour the once-prestigious boarding school.

Feb 16 2024
Asya Sigelman Academia’s Double Standard on Rape

Why aren’t the students and professors who demand trigger warnings for discussions of rape in literature at the forefront of those denouncing Hamas’s atrocities?

Feb 06 2024
Liel Leibovitz Opportunity, Not Tragedy

The DEI ship at Harvard and other elite universities is probably too big to turn around—it’s time to look elsewhere.

Jan 30 2024
David Randall Publish-or-Perish Must Perish

A guide to reducing the academy’s plague of marginal scholarship

Jan 30 2024
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America’s Cultural Revolution:
How the Radical Left Conquered Everything


New Book by Christopher F. Rufo

When Race Trumps Merit


The new book by Heather Mac Donald

The Spotlight

Andrey Mir The Medium Is the Menace

Ubiquitous digital media offer potent rewards—but at the price of eroding our sensory and social capacities.

Fred Bauer We Are More Than Our Data

Preserving individual liberty amid the digital revolution will require carving out a space for the distinctively human.

Sep 01 2023
Robert Henderson The Cadre in the Code

How artificial intelligence could supplement and reinforce our emerging thought police

Bruno Maçães Art and Artificial Intelligence

Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun explores the continuum between creativity and technology.

Stephen Eide The American Party System: A Lament

Progressives’ effort to weaken parties has harmed our democracy.

Heather Mac Donald The Great Abdication

In California, public officials now favor the lawless and deviant over the law-abiding and hardworking.

Howard Husock Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes”

What Charles Loring Brace’s philanthropy can teach us today

Roger Scruton What Ever Happened to Reason?

Behind the attack on rationality lurks another and more virulent hostility: the hostility to the culture and the curriculum that we have inherited from the Enlightenment.

Jeffrey H. Anderson A Border Crisis By Design

It is unequivocally the intended result of Biden administration policy.

Feb 02 2024
Shepard Barbash The Mexico Tragedy

America’s southern neighbor confronts metastasizing violence and institutional corruption that threaten its future.

Abigail Shrier When the State Comes for Your Kids

Social workers, youth shelters, and the threat to parents’ rights

Jun 08 2021
Richard Brookhiser The Founder of Gotham’s Fortunes

If DeWitt Clinton had never lived, New York probably would not have attracted you or your ancestors.