City Journal Winter 2008

Rudolph W. Giuliani
The Resilient Society
A blueprint for homeland security

Heather Mac Donald
The Campus Rape Myth
The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys

Steven Malanga
The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates
Black anger grows as illegal immigrants transform urban neighborhoods.

Kay S. Hymowitz
Child-Man in the Promised Land
Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood.

Sol Stern
School Choice Isn’t Enough
Instructional reform is the key to better schools.

Nicole Gelinas
Criminalizing Capitalism
Six years after Enron, executives face greater risks—but investors are no safer.

Judith Miller
Abu Dhabi: East Leans West
While radical Islamists fight to restore the Dark Ages, a modernizing sheikhdom invests in Western culture.

Michael Knox Beran
Hearts of Darkness
Trendy paternalism is keeping Africa in chains.

James Q. Wilson
Why Don’t Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them?
Liberalism can’t abide conservative evangelicals.

Andrew Klavan
The Lost Art of War
Hollywood’s anti-American war films don’t measure up to the glories of its patriotic era.

Myron Magnet
Architecture’s Battle of the Modernisms
. . . and what it means for Gotham’s future

Howard Husock
Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes”
What Charles Loring Brace’s philanthropy can teach us today

Theodore Dalrymple
The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare
Novelist J. G. Ballard exposes the fragility of the affluent society.

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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •	Rudolph W. Giuliani The Resilient Society A blueprint for homeland security Heather Mac Donald The Campus Rape Myth The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys Steven Malanga The Rainbow Coalition Evaporates Black anger grows as illegal immigrants transform urban neighborhoods. Kay S. Hymowitz Child-Man in the Promised Land Today’s single young men hang out in a hormonal limbo between adolescence and adulthood. PODCAST: Kay S. Hymowitz discusses this story Sol Stern School Choice Isn’t Enough Instructional reform is the key to better schools. PODCAST: Sol Stern discusses this story FORUM: Is School Choice Enough? Nicole Gelinas Criminalizing Capitalism Six years after Enron, executives face greater risks—but investors are no safer. Judith Miller Abu Dhabi: East Leans West While radical Islamists fight to restore the Dark Ages, a modernizing sheikhdom invests in Western culture. Michael Knox Beran Hearts of Darkness Trendy paternalism is keeping Africa in chains. James Q. Wilson Why Don’t Jews Like the Christians Who Like Them? Liberalism can’t abide conservative evangelicals. Andrew Klavan The Lost Art of War Hollywood’s anti-American war films don’t measure up to the glories of its patriotic era. Myron Magnet Architecture’s Battle of the Modernisms . . . and what it means for Gotham’s future Howard Husock Uplifting the “Dangerous Classes” What Charles Loring Brace’s philanthropy can teach us today Jay P. Greene, Catherine Shock Adding Up to Failure Ed schools put diversity before math. Guy Sorman Cheers for Chile’s Chicago Boys Milton Friedmanesque reforms helped create South America’s most prosperous nation. David Whelan A Philly Tax Cutter Can Mayor Nutter cure the city’s cancer? Ibn Warraq Why the West Is Best My response to Tariq Ramadan In Prospect Oh, to be in England Theodore Dalrymple The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare Novelist J. G. Ballard exposes the fragility of the affluent society. Letters Contributors Diarist Christopher Hitchens Prisoner of Shelves	Search Site Advanced Search