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The Palestinian national narrative is the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East.
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The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb.
Steven Malanga
The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb
. . . and how to dismantle it
Classical Music's New Golden Age.
Heather Mac Donald
Classical Music’s New Golden Age
Thanks to period-music evangelists, breathtaking virtuosity, and millions of listeners, the art form remains vibrant.
Surveying the Wreckage.
Nicole Gelinas
Surveying the Wreckage
What can we learn from the top books on the financial crisis?
Coming Soon
What Social Science Does--and Doesn't--Know.
Jim Manzi
What Social Science Does—and Doesn’t—Know
Our scientific ignorance of the human condition remains profound.
The Free-Marketeers Strike Back.
Guy Sorman
The Free-Marketeers Strike Back
A counter-narrative of the financial crisis
The Bucks Stop Here.
E. J. McMahon
The Bucks Stop Here
New York governors have the power they need to control spending.
Europe's Guilty Conscience.
Pascal Bruckner
Europe’s Guilty Conscience
Self-hatred is paralyzing the Continent.
The Golden State's War on Itself.
Joel Kotkin
The Golden State’s War on Itself
How politicians turned the California Dream into a nightmare
Enlightened and Enriched.
Joel Mokyr
Enlightened and Enriched
We owe our modern prosperity to Enlightenment ideas.
The Life-Changing Lottery.
Marcus A. Winters
The Life-Changing Lottery
Charter schools offer inner-city kids a shot at success—but only if they’re lucky.
Progressives Against Progress.
Fred Siegel
Progressives Against Progress
The rise of environmentalism poisoned liberals’ historical optimism.
A Twenty-First-Century GOP.
Tevi D. Troy
A Twenty-First-Century GOP
Republicans need to win back tech-savvy, educated voters. Here’s how.
Urbanities.
Something to Love Among the Ruins.
David Watkin
Something to Love Among the Ruins
Three young architects offer a beautiful alternative to modernism’s ravages.
Departments.
Oh, to be in England
Modernity's Uninvited Guest.
Theodore Dalrymple
Modernity’s Uninvited Guest
Civilization makes progress, but evil persists.
Diarist
Claire Berlinski
Dominican Republic or Bust
CJ Online.
Books and Culture.
Guy Sorman
The Road to Freedom
A flawed essay collection charts the early history of the Mont Pelerin Society.
23 July 2010
Daniel J. Flynn
Unplugged
William Powers urges us to turn away from our computer screens.
16 July 2010
Steven Malanga
Pessimism-Proof
Matt Ridley’s provocative, if flawed, new book offers a sunny view of human progress.
9 July 2010
Eye on the News.
Heather Mac Donald
The Arizona Lesson
What the state’s experiment with the rule of law has already taught us
27 July 2010
Andrew Klavan
Empire of Silence
Journolist, Breitbart, and what the Left doesn’t say
26 July 2010
Paul Romer
Zip It
Anti-disorder campaigns can change urban norms.
23 July 2010
CJ Classics.
ILLUSTRATION BY ARNOLD ROTH Christopher Hitchens
Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates
America’s first confrontation with the Islamic world helped forge a new nation’s character.
Spring 2007
CJ Podcasts.
Podcast available
Nicole Gelinas
Interviews with Philip Augar, Roger Lowenstein, Nouriel Roubini
19 July 2010
Podcast available
Arthur Brooks
The New Culture War
8 March 2010
Podcast available
CJ Authors.
Nicole Gelinas
Research Magazine
| Europe’s Debt Crisis — And Ours
John McWhorter
New York Times
| The Dreaded P-Word?
Guy Sorman
Project Syndicate
| Europe’s Vision Deficit
Andrew Klavan
AndrewKlavan.com
| KOC: It’s An Obama Recovery Summer!
Brian C. Anderson
Washington Examiner
| Washington Examiner
Soundings.
Steven Malanga
Egg on Their Faces
Government dietary advice often proves disastrous.
Stefan Kanfer
The Gold Bubble
The latest craze lacks mettle.
Heather Mac Donald
Misfire
A flawed new study finds racial bias in police-on-police shootings.
Philippe Nemo
Le Squeeze
High taxes on the affluent threaten France’s prosperity.
James Panero
New York’s Pioneer Zones
Residents of formerly blighted neighborhoods deserve the city’s support.
Nicole Gelinas
Eurocrash
Despite its promises, a common currency might be holding the Continent back.
Bert Useem
New York’s Prison Turnaround
The population behind bars is falling, even as crime stays low.
William Voegeli
A Deeper Bench
A very brief case for Supreme Court term limits