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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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Hans Zeiger Public Universities Can Save the Humanities

America’s land-grant schools offer a natural home for a liberal arts revival.

Mar 06 2024
Paul du Quenoy Is Merit Really Making a Comeback?

Standardized tests are back for admissions at Yale, but it may not be for the right reasons.

Mar 04 2024
Liel Leibovitz Georgetown’s Extremist Turn

The university has hired a professor who spread a conspiracy theory about Israel on-air and is now hosting the academic organization that defended him.

Feb 23 2024
Christopher F. Rufo Harvard’s Plagiarism Problem Multiplies

Another administrator at the Ivy League university appears to have plagiarized her dissertation.

Feb 22 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

Stephen J. K. Walters City of Broken Windows

Baltimore’s tragic record provides clear evidence that disorder breeds more disorder—and death.

Jul 26 2022
Joel Kotkin City of Villages

Vibrant ethnic neighborhoods, not tall buildings, define the real Los Angeles.

Aaron M. Renn Midwestern Breakout?

Columbus, Ohio, is firing on all cylinders—demographically, economically, and culturally.

Dec 17 2018
Mark Pulliam Red State, Blue Cities

Will the Texas model become a victim of its own success?

Jonathan Meer The Wrong Tool for the Job

Hiking the minimum wage will neither enhance economic mobility nor alleviate poverty.

Steven Malanga The Marijuana Delusion

States rush to legalize recreational pot, even as evidence of its harms grows.

Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York

An Inside Look at America’s Greatest Turnaround

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Mar 23 2023
Jonathan Clarke The Fast Casual Society

Our abandonment of standards of dress means the loss of expressive potential and our sense of occasion.

Apr 14 2023
Andrew Klavan Can We Believe?

A personal reflection on why we shouldn’t abandon the faith that has nourished Western civilization

Ray Domanico Renewing Catholic Education on Long Island

St. Mary’s in Manhasset shows a way forward for religious education.

Jan 02 2024
Zaid Jilani Pondering a World Without Us

The American-led global order isn’t perfect, but it’s better than the alternatives.

Mar 10 2022
Ian Penman Belonging Nowhere

Author Jean Rhys felt like a ghost in her own life, but her posthumous renown shows no sign of fading.