City Journal.
City Journal Spring 2010.
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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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Praise for City Journal.
California in Crisis.
The Beholden State.
Steven Malanga
The Beholden State
How public-sector unions broke California
Don't Blame Proposition 13.
William Voegeli
Don’t Blame Proposition 13
Profligate spending, not property-tax reform, has put California in a hole.
The Silicon Lining.
Guy Sorman
The Silicon Lining
California’s innovative high-tech firms keep creating wealth, but will bad state policies drive them out?
Beware the Muni-Bond Bubble.
Nicole Gelinas
Beware the Muni-Bond Bubble
Investors are kidding themselves if they think that states and cities can’t fail.
The Menace of Strategic Default.
Luigi Zingales
The Menace of Strategic Default
Homeowners who walk away from their mortgages undermine our financial system.
Bracing Brew.
Myron Magnet
Bracing Brew
Bring on the Tea Parties!
Can New York Clean Up the Testing Mess?.
Sol Stern
Can New York Clean Up the Testing Mess?
Two top education officials tackle rampant score inflation.
Preservation Follies.
Edward L. Glaeser
Preservation Follies
Excessive landmarking threatens to make Manhattan a refuge for the rich.
Brand New Green.
Peter W. Huber
Brand New Green
A prominent environmentalist rethinks his worldview—up to a point.
Reclaiming Memory.
A Hidden History of Evil.
Claire Berlinski
A Hidden History of Evil
Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?
When Germ Warfare Happened.
Judith Miller
When Germ Warfare Happened
Seventy years ago, Japan’s bio-attacks killed hundreds of thousands. The effects linger today.
The Varieties of Liberal Enthusiam.
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
The Varieties of Liberal Enthusiasm
The Left’s political zealotry increasingly resembles religious experience.
Urbanities.
Exile in Dogpatch.
Stefan Kanfer
Exile in Dogpatch
The curious neglect of cartoonist Al Capp
Mr. Mimic.
John H. McWhorter
Mr. Mimic
The extraordinary gifts and fleeting legacy of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Soundings.
Steven Malanga
Block Grants Forever
A deathless program and its long record of failure
Cameron Abadi
A Basic Income for All?
German free marketeers turn to an innovative idea.
Tevi D. Troy
The Odd Couple Metric
New York isn’t Felix and Oscar’s city any more.
Benjamin Villanti
Subway Lessons from Madrid
New York, take note.
Christopher Clausen
“You’ll Never Be Alone”
America’s strange new retirement communities
Philippe Nemo
Europe’s Endangered Soul
Can the Continent survive the EU’s expansion?
Alain de Botton
On Distraction
Our minds need to go on a diet.
Mark Riebling
Personal Responsibility at the Founding
How the framers coined a phrase as they created a nation
Nicole Gelinas
Who’s Resurrecting New Orleans?
Mitch Landrieu sees a problem that city government can fix.
Departments.
Oh, to be in England
Symphony Deformed.
Theodore Dalrymple
Sympathy Deformed
Misguided compassion hurts the poor.
Diarist
John V. Fleming
Never Brought to Mind
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