From City Journal’s Symposium Series
Proposals to improve care for the seriously mentally ill

A symposium on higher education in the United States

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness


The Spotlight
In an increasingly urbanized world, earthquakes threaten unprepared cities with mass destruction.

An elite law firm’s inability to promote enough minority partners exposes the unrealistic expectations of diversity mandates.

The legal profession, once a guardian of republican government, is now a force for social upheaval.

For Roger Angell, who died in May at 101, baseball was the subject of a lifetime.

Enlightened as we believe ourselves to be, a golden age of contentment has not dawned—very far from it.

Students would scorn free speech less if colleges honored their mission to transmit knowledge.

Looking back at college basketball’s first great scandal, which dethroned the game from its place atop New York sports.

After the pandemic, Americans should never let public-health authorities deprive them of their liberties.

Surrounding the City of Light are threatening Cities of Darkness.

A decade after his death, one of our greatest literary stylists has fallen into critical disfavor.

The pandemic may prove as bad as some warn; it is also possible that our response could prove as harmful as the virus itself.

A venerable Catholic school in the Bronx has transformed the lives of generations of low-income, at-risk students.
