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Heather Mac Donald [197 titles]
- Same Old Drumbeat
A response to the Huffington Post on Chicago youth violence
28 January 2010 - Championing Dependency
The poverty industry renews its attack on welfare reform.
26 January 2010 - Chicago’s Real Crime Story
Why decades of community organizing haven’t stemmed the city’s youth violence
Winter 2010 - DHS, Stuck in Red Tape
The agency’s privacy-compliance measures cripple intelligence-gathering.
8 January 2010 - A Modern Children’s Classic
Fantastic Mr. Fox revives the imaginative genius of the early twentieth-century masters.
30 December 2009 - The Bilingual Ban That Worked
Rising test scores vindicate English immersion in California—but Hispanics are still struggling.
Autumn 2009 - There’s a Quota for That
Tucson schools determine to fix minority discipline rates.
Autumn 2009 - Crime-Fighting, Beyond Black and White
Big cities are ignoring race baiters and hiring the best police chiefs, whatever their color.
3 November 2009 - Root Causes Uprooted
A down economy doesn’t mean more crime and homelessness.
29 October 2009 - The Truth About Policing and Skid Row
Summer 2009 proved that poor people’s best friend is the LAPD, not homeless advocates.
28 September 2009 - New Yorkers: Give a Hoot!
15 September 2009 - Proactive Policing, Lax Jailing
As William Bratton leaves the LAPD, a horrific murder case highlights the importance of his reforms.
7 August 2009 - Obama’s Ignorant Attack on Cops
The president ought to know how much inner-city neighborhoods owe to good policing.
29 July 2009 - The Jail Inferno
A descent into the nation’s most tumultuous penal institutions, where modern order-maintenance techniques are bringing discipline
Summer 2009 - New York’s Indispensable Institution
The NYPD’s crime-fighting sparked the city’s economic revival and is essential to its future.
7 July 2009 - Ricci and the Skills Gap
What leads to unequal results between blacks and whites isn’t racism.
7 July 2009 - Obscure Treasures at the Brooklyn Museum
Go see the museum’s Caillebotte exhibit—and keep an eye out for a Boldini.
17 June 2009 - A Harlem Tragedy and Its Exploiters
Police officer Omar Edwards’s death had nothing to do with NYPD racism.
2 June 2009 - Royal Heartbreak
A new production of Ionesco’s Exit the King amplifies life’s mysteries.
11 May 2009 - A Gift and a Travesty
Two Met productions show how to do opera—and how to mangle it.
20 March 2009 - Recession-Proof Diversity
Harvard expands its futile quest for proportional faculty.
Winter 2009 - Nation of Cowards?
So says Eric Holder, but what’s really cowardly is racial dishonesty.
19 February 2009 - The Times’s Weak-Willed Women
How else to explain female absence from the sciences?
28 January 2009 - Never Enough Beauty, Never Enough Truth
Philanthropists should do what they love, not surrender to identity politics.
Winter 2009 - Profiling Eric Holder
What does Obama’s attorney general–designate believe about cops and race?
14 January 2009 - What’s in a Name
When it comes to schools, a reflection of our future
12 January 2009 - The Times’s Crime Confusions Persist
Error and distortion at the paper, Heaven help us, of record
5 January 2009 - A Preference for Truth
Racial quotas are slowly losing their cover.
Autumn 2008 - Notes on the Election
City Journal writers reflect on Tuesday’s results and on the implications of an Obama presidency.
7 November 2008 - Gettin’ All Mavericky
Conservatives should not sacrifice standards for political advantage.
13 October 2008 - Honesty from the Left on Hispanic Immigration
A provocative new book doesn’t flinch from delivering the bad news.
8 October 2008 - Anti-Elitism Goes Too Far
Sarah Palin’s defenders shouldn’t mock the value of learning.
25 September 2008 - Greed Is for Other People
And other people’s money is very handy for “homeless” advocates and their clients.
22 September 2008 - Sarah Palin (R-Diversity)
Republicans betray their principles by playing identity politics.
30 August 2008 - I Do Solemnly Swear to Parade My Family . . .
Political conventions childishly conflate the personal with the political.
28 August 2008 - The NYPD Diaspora
Former New York cops bring cutting-edge, effective policing to beleaguered communities.
Summer 2008 - Math Is Harder for Girls
. . . and also, it seems, for the New York Times.
28 July 2008 - There Go the Neighborhoods
Even million-dollar housing vouchers bring crime to the suburbs.
2 July 2008 - Grill Power
Elitist feminism and the New York Times
1 July 2008 - Is the Criminal-Justice System Racist?
No: the high percentage of blacks behind bars reflects crime rates, not bigotry.
Spring 2008 - Poisonous “Authenticity”
Jeremiah Wright draws on a long line of Afrocentric charlatans.
29 April 2008 - Beauty, While Supplies Last
New York City Opera’s delightful Falstaff is the kind of production that may soon be hard to find.
21 March 2008 - A Thought Experiment on Campus Rape
False statistics, or evil administrators?
2 March 2008 - The Campus Rape Myth
The reality: bogus statistics, feminist victimology, and university-approved sex toys
Winter 2008 - The Reclamation of Skid Row
The LAPD’s efforts are reviving America’s most squalid neighborhood—and the homeless industry is hopping mad.
Autumn 2007 - The Jena Dodge
Demonstrators and the media avoid the stubborn truths of black social breakdown.
24 September 2007 - The Abduction of Opera
Can the Met stand firm against the trashy productions of trendy nihilists?
Summer 2007 - Cop Killers in High Places
When newspapers and black leaders assault the police, small wonder that criminals follow suit.
19 July 2007 - Animating Ourselves
Lifted, a delightful contribution to our cartoon canon
16 July 2007 - Happy Father’s Day, Mom!
Hallmark cashes in on family breakdown.
15 June 2007 - Cheers—and Loathing—at the Metropolitan Opera
Which will win out: glorious triumphs or trendy travesties?
14 June 2007 - The Republicans’ Hispanic Delusion
Amnesty is not just wrong in principle, it’s bad politics.
6 June 2007 - New York to the DOJ: Hands Off Our Fire Department
Firefighting is no place for racial politics.
23 May 2007 - Blair Breaks the Black Crime Taboo
Gangsta culture, not an unjust society, drives it, says the outgoing British prime minister.
12 April 2007 - Time for the Truth About Black Crime Rates
The lessons of the Sean Bell case
2 April 2007 - Time for the Truth About Black Crime Rates
The lessons of the Sean Bell case
Spring 2007 - A Civil Solution
The narrow framework of criminal law doesn’t fit fatal police miscalculations.
27 March 2007 - Eclipsing Beauty
Gerard Mortier threatens to “update” City Opera—with trendy nihilism.
1 March 2007 - Harvard’s Faustian Bargain
America’s oldest university selects a dreadful president.
9 February 2007 - Why Cops Stop and Frisk So Many Blacks
Blame high black crime, not police racism.
7 February 2007 - Blaming New York’s Finest
Gotham pols sacrifice the NYPD to racial politics.
17 January 2007 - Elites to Anti-Affirmative-Action Voters: Drop Dead
The University of California has spent a decade wiggling around Proposition 209.
Winter 2007 - No, the Cops Didn’t Murder Sean Bell
And here’s what decent black advocates would say.
Winter 2007 - No, the Cops Didn’t Murder Sean Bell
And here’s what decent black advocates would say.
4 December 2006 - Hispanic Family Values?
Runaway illegitimacy is creating a new U.S. underclass.
Autumn 2006 - Amnesty Lessons
Europe finds that amnesty for illegal immigrants brings ever more illegals.
29 September 2006 - The Open Borders Mayor
Don’t fall for Mayor Bloomberg’s immigration plan.
10 July 2006 - Seeing Today’s Immigrants Straight
Advocates of “comprehensive immigration reform” let ideology blind them to the dispiriting facts on the ground.
Summer 2006 - New York Cops: Still the Finest
Bucking a national trend, Gotham’s crime rate keeps dropping. Here’s why.
Summer 2006 - Illegal Immigration Myths
Cutting through the baloney on what to do about illegals
1 May 2006 - What Would Mexico Do with Protesting Illegals?
Deport them on the spot.
10 April 2006 - Everyone’s a Victim
If boys and girls are oppressed classes, who’s left?
30 March 2006 - Talking Sense on “Spying”
Requiring warrants for computerized surveillance is absurd and dangerous to national security.
2 January 2006 - This Is the Legal Mainstream?
Law school clinics are stuck in the sixties.
Winter 2006 - Baghdad’s Real Torturers
A harsh discovery puts U.S. pundits’ distorted reports in perspective.
21 November 2005 - Mexico’s Undiplomatic Diplomats
It's time for Mexican consulates to stop aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
Autumn 2005 - Gay Times
The not-so-gray lady indulges its taste for not-fit-to-print news.
Autumn 2005 - Gay Times
The no-longer-gray lady indulges its taste for not-fit-to-print news.
22 September 2005 - The Racism Charges Won’t Wash
The Katrina donations—$788 million-worth—are colorblind.
14 September 2005 - Harvard's New Old-Girl Network
The feminist bean-counters take control.
25 July 2005 - Cameras and Counterterrorism
Despite the privacy advocates’ claims, public spaces are public—fortunately.
18 July 2005 - Don’t Fund College Follies
Alumni donors should promote the teaching of Western civilization—not the destruction of it.
Summer 2005 - Harvard’s Diversity Grovel
In earmarking $50 million for "diversity," President Summers is throwing away more than money.
Summer 2005 - Pity Harvard’s Oppressed Women Profs
Oh, how they suffer!
8 June 2005 - Harvard’s Diversity Grovel
In earmarking $50 million for “diversity,” President Summers is throwing away more than money.
3 June 2005 - The Patriot Act Is No Slippery Slope
Protecting ourselves doesn’t lead to tyranny.
8 April 2005 - Heralds of a Brighter Black Future
More and more, African-American iconoclasts reject victimology and embrace American possibility.
Spring 2005 - Feminists Get Hysterical
First it was Harvard vs. Summers—and now Estrich vs. Kinsley.
24 February 2005 - Every Interrogation Is Not Abu Ghraib
Administration critics focus on techniques the Pentagon has forbidden.
27 January 2005 - Tortured Logic on Torture
Andrew Sullivan misinterprets Abu Ghraib
25 January 2005 - A further response to Sullivan
14 January 2005 - Heather Mac Donald responds to Andrew Sullivan’s “Lederman on Water-Boarding”
13 January 2005 - Heather Mac Donald responds to Marty Lederman on Abu Ghraib and U.S. interrogation policies:
13 January 2005 - How to Interrogate Terrorists
Don't believe the charges. American troops treat terrorists with Geneva-convention politeness—perhaps too much so.
Winter 2005 - Homeland Security? Not Yet
Political correctness still makes us pull our punches.
Autumn 2004 - Time to Take Illegal Immigration Seriously
The newsweekly dramatically breaks with elite orthodoxy.
16 September 2004 - The Immigrant Gang Plague
Hispanic gang violence is spreading across the country, the sign of a new underclass in the making.
Summer 2004 - What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us
How the privacy advocates are subverting the War on Terror.
Spring 2004 - How New York Evades Welfare Reform
Governor Pataki’s push to close loopholes in New York’s welfare system roils the advocates.
29 March 2004 - When Cops Err
It wasn’t racism that killed Timothy Stansbury.
29 January 2004 - The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave
Why can’t our immigration authorities deport the hordes of illegal felons in our cities?
Winter 2004 - Wimping Out on Welfare
The Bloomberg administration wants to cut the heart out of welfare reform.
Autumn 2003 - Sanity on the Homeless
An important court decision will let Gotham help the homeless stay off the streets.
Autumn 2003 - The NYPD’s Blackout Success
Why was New York so peaceful during the blackout? Good policing.
Autumn 2003 - Chief Bratton Takes on L.A.
Can he repeat his NYPD success with America�s most battered police force?
Autumn 2003 - Wimping Out on Welfare
The Bloomberg administration wants to cut the heart out of welfare reform.
15 October 2003 - Gotham Wins One Against the Homeless Industry
An important court decision will enable the city to help the homeless stay off the streets.
1 October 2003 - Mac Donald Fires Back
The debate with Reason magazine continues . . .
15 September 2003 - The NYPD’s Blackout Success
The real reason New York was so peaceful during the blackout: good policing.
20 August 2003 - The War on the War on Terror Continues
The Times twists the truth to discredit the Justice Department.
25 July 2003 - Straight Talk on Homeland Security
By no means Orwellian, the Patriot Act provides the security that ensures liberty.
Summer 2003 - L’affaire Blair
At the paper of record, it seems, ideology trumps truth.
13 May 2003 - How to Straighten Out Ex-Cons
It's time to hold wardens and parole officers accountable for cutting recidivism.
Spring 2003 - What’s a Cop’s Life Worth?
Race changes the equation.
Spring 2003 - Can’t We All Just Stay Home?
War protests divert police resources from homeland security and endanger us all.
28 March 2003 - What’s a Cop’s Life Worth?
Race changes the equation.
14 March 2003 - Slavery Reparations Hit Gotham
A new City Council bill is wildly unjust and would scare more businesses out of the city.
Winter 2003 - Holiday Homelessness Hype
Gotham’s mendacious homelessness industry is back in force. Mayor Bloomberg needs to set the advocates straight.
Winter 2003 - Slavery Reparations Hit Gotham
A new City Council bill is wildly unjust and would scare more businesses out of the city.
17 December 2002 - Holiday Homelessness Hype
Gotham’s mendacious homelessness industry is back in force. Mayor Bloomberg needs to set the advocates straight.
3 December 2002 - A Green Light to Spy on Americans? Nonsense.
Don’t believe the mainstream press’s account of the latest court decision on intelligence sharing.
25 November 2002 - Why the FBI Didn't Stop 9/11
Blame elite beliefs and Clinton-era edicts.
Autumn 2002 - Back to the Past on Welfare
New York’s clueless City Council is set to gut welfare reform.
25 October 2002 - Ashcroft’s Racial Profiling Problem
The attorney general has more important tasks than proving he’s not a racist.
12 July 2002 - The Black Cops You Never Hear About
Why doesn’t the press ask these guys if the police are racist?
Summer 2002 - What Aerosols!
Will the graffiti fans at the New York Times ever grow up?
Summer 2002 - Punish Welfare Scofflaws
New York needs to end the benefits of those unwilling to work.
Summer 2002 - Hardball with Terrorists
Bleeding heart advocates and journalists still don’t get that we’re at war.
11 June 2002 - Backsliding on Welfare
The Bloomberg administration flirts with a discredited approach to welfare reform.
13 May 2002 - The SAT Comes Full Circle
Proposed changes in the Big Test guarantee more racial special-pleading.
6 May 2002 - Amnesty International Travesty
The human-rights advocacy group is wrong to condemn America’s detention of illegal aliens.
26 April 2002 - Get Rid of Gotham’s Human Rights Commission
Instead of gutting essential services, Mayor Bloomberg should close this useless agency.
23 April 2002 - The Prep-School PC Plague
Instead of forging a colorblind elite, these privileged schools stress everything that divides their newly diverse student bodies.
Spring 2002 - The Racial Profiling Myth Debunked
The new numbers prove that there is no systematic police racism.
Spring 2002 - Welfare Reform in the Balance
New York’s new welfare chief sometimes sounds like a Dinkins-era throwback.
Spring 2002 - Look at the Evidence
Rebutting OpinionJournal
29 March 2002 - The Racial Profiling Myth Debunked
New data show City Journal was right—there’s no credible evidence that racial profiling exists.
27 March 2002 - Welfare Reform in the Balance
New York’s new welfare commish sometimes sounds like a Dinkins-era throwback.
21 March 2002 - Don’t Mess with Welfare Reform’s Success
As the five-year time limit kicks in, and the reform measure faces
renewal, Congress must reject advocates’ calls to go back to the past
Winter 2002 - Keeping New York Safe from Terrorists
Intelligence sharing and accountability for investigators are the keys.
Autumn 2001 - What Really Happened in Cincinnati
Everyone says that the riots were a protest against racism and oppression.
Summer 2001 - The Myth of Racial Profiling
There’s no credible evidence that racial profiling exists, yet the crusade to abolish it threatens a decade’s worth of crime-fighting success.
Spring 2001 - The Met’s Triumphant Democratic Elitism
In his catty memoir of his years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, former director Thomas Hoving recounts an exchange with a certain associate curator of European paintings, Philippe de Montebello.
Winter 2001 - How To Train Cops
New York’s Police Academy does a model job of turning raw recruits into efficient officers. It should put more focus on good vs. bad, less on black vs. white.
Autumn 2000 - America’s Best Urban Police Force
Yes, it’s the NYPD, despite all the disinformation spread by Al Sharpton and the New York Times. Here’s the proof.
Summer 2000 - Racial Profilings at the Times
There’s something ugly in the newspaper of record’s coverage of the Dorismond shooting.
Spring 2000 - Merit Pay for CUNY’s Profs
Here’s how CUNY can spruce up its medocre faculty.
Spring 2000 - What Good is Pro Bono?
Elite lawyers make a big show of serving the public good for free, but today their “pro bono” activities fray the social fabric, and taxpayers often end up paying their seven-figure bills, to boot.
Spring 2000 - Why the Boy Scouts Work
A century ago, this outfit figured out how to fire the imagination of inner-city boys with nature lore, ritual, and a code of conduct stressing duty, honor, and manliness. That’s why today’s elites hate it.
Winter 2000 - Room for Excellence?
Since the Schmidt commission on the City University of New York delivered its recommendations last June, public debate has centered on the thorny problem of remediation.
Autumn 1999 - Jerry Brown’s No-Nonsense New Age for Oakland
Philadelphia’s high-profile mayor started out with a bang in 1992. But he had no Act II. What happened?
Autumn 1999 - Welfare Reform Rollback
It's not too soon to start worrying about the fate of welfare reform in post-Giuliani New York City.
Autumn 1999 - Diallo Truth, Diallo Falsehood
For three months, the Diallo tragedy convulsed New York. But most accounts of it—the Times’s above all—were politically motivated distortions. The city is the worse for them.
Summer 1999 - A is for Activism
Worried that college students are spending too much time studying rather than protesting?
Spring 1999 - How Gotham’s Elite High Schools Escaped the Leveller’s Ax
Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech are everything the public school system has mistakenly tried to eradicate.
Spring 1999 - Foster Care’s Underworld
Foster care, with its traffic in abused and neglected children, has become integral to the inner-city economy. Advocates, who should be horrified, are eerily calm.
Winter 1999 - BIDing Adieu
Is New York City big enough for both a ferociously aggressive mayor and a ferociously aggressive private manager of public space?
Autumn 1998 - Public Health Quackery
Public health professors now teach that social injustice, rather than individual behavior, is the true cause of disease—a sure prescription for a less healthy future.
Autumn 1998 - An F for Hip-Hop 101
At El Puente Academy, progressive education’s quest for “relevance” produces mighty strange results.
Summer 1998 - Why Johnny’s Teacher Can’t Teach
Ed schools purvey multicultural sensitivity, metacognition, community-building—anything but knowledge.
Spring 1998 - CUNY Could Be Great Again
The sixties turned the once-proud City University into a backwater of remediation and race politics. Time to change its course.
Winter 1998 - The Real Welfare Problem Is Illegitimacy
Putting mothers to work will never solve the welfare problem, if generations of new clients keep forming before our eyes. Mayor Giuliani should begin to change the terms of our social services.
Winter 1998 - Homeless Advocates in Outer Space
When a program implementing all their favorite nostrums failed utterly, homeless advocates responded with denial, denial, denial—which shows why everyone should tune them out.
Autumn 1997 - Mistaken Identity
Ever wonder what a quarter-century inside the Ford Foundation will do to a person?
Autumn 1997 - Gotham’s Workforce Woes
Employers say that New York’s economic future depends on upgrading the quality of its workers.
Summer 1997 - Substandard
The perennial question for the City University of New York--just how low have academic standards sunk?--received a depressing new answer this May.
Summer 1997 - Work Fair?
Laws dictating a 'prevailing wage'--whereby private government contractors have to use union pay scales--have long inflated the cost of construction for public works.
Summer 1997 - Behind the Hundred Neediest Cases
It was no favor to the poor when the New York Times’s annual appeal, which for 85 years has voiced the elite view of poverty, decided that the needy were not responsible for their own fate.
Spring 1997 - Welfare Reform Discoveries
Surprisingly, New York City is a big workfare success, and Wisconsin’s touted reforms work better in the boondocks than in the cities. Both experiments show that workfare solves only part of the welfare riddle.
Winter 1997 - Moscow-on-the-Hudson
Autumn 1996 - The Billions of Dollars That Made Things Worse
Philanthropic foundations once used their vast might to cure disease, promote art, and advance education. In the sixties, they decided to reform society. Result: catastrophe.
Autumn 1996 - Caught in the Matrix
Summer 1996 - Disturbing Admissions
Summer 1996 - BIDs Really Work
Business improvement districts have used private-sector initiative to restore cleanliness and order to public spaces in cities across the nation. Success has earned them bitter enemies--especially in New York.
Spring 1996 - Quota Faceoff
The battle over ending affirmative action has arrived in New York.
Spring 1996 - Compassion Gone Mad
New York City’s social service programs target every stage of life. But by refusing to give moral guidance, they do more harm than good.
Winter 1996 - Law School Humbug
The hottest new legal theories may be antithetical to the very notion of law, but their influence is growing, even beyond the ivy-covered walls.
Autumn 1995 - What About the Children?
Crying and shaking uncontrollably, many babies born addicted to crack refuse to take food; many die.
Summer 1995 - A Losing Bet
Never let it be said that New York doesn't think ahead. When the State Legislature reluctantly enacted Governor Pataki's proposal for a new form of gambling--the quick-draw video lottery--in its recent budget, it thoughtfully set aside $1.5 million for treatment of compulsive gambling.
Summer 1995 - It Takes All Kinds
Just when you thought you'd mastered the requirements of 'diversity,' another oppressed group joins the list.
Summer 1995 - The Feds' Orwellian War on New York's Courts
Routinely adding new judges, New York met a monster: a crusading Justice Department determined to prove that the city’s minority-controlled judicial selection process discriminated against minorities.
Summer 1995 - With Friends Like These…
The crack epidemic has wreaked havoc on New York City's public housing.
Spring 1995 - Why Koreans Succeed
Does the American Dream still exist? These New York immigrants say yes. To achieve it, they found, takes the familiar American virtues.
Spring 1995 - An Essential Service?
With budget-cutting fervor sweeping the country, colleges and public schools are scrimping for books and classroom space.
Spring 1995 - Programmed for Failure
A recent study of an effort to reduce teen pregnancy shows just how elusive that goal is.
Winter 1995 - The New Balkanization
Affirmative action may be crumbling under its own contradictions. Consider the case of Elvia Fernandez, who formerly worked for the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), managing the reconstruction of Brooklyn's Kings County Hospital.
Winter 1995 - Welfare's Next Vietnam
Disability will soon surpass AFDC and become the nation’s second-biggest welfare program. It is producing AFDC-sized problems too.
Winter 1995 - San Francisco Gets Tough with the Homeless
A cop-turned-mayor keeps his pledge to take back the streets--and teaches some important social policy lessons.
Autumn 1994 - Selling Welfare
New York City doesn't have enough people on welfare. Such anyway seems the premise behind a $400,000 city and federally funded advertising campaign this summer that aimed to persuade up to a million city dwellers to apply for food stamps.
Autumn 1994 - Big Brother HUD
This summer, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development launched an investigation of Gramercy Park residents Dominick Crispino, Arlene Harrison, and Jack Taylor.
Autumn 1994 - So Much for Physics
Does a multicultural curriculum promote educational excellence? Speakers at a recent City University-sponsored conference, entitled 'Diversity in the Urban Schools: Implications for the Preparation of Teachers,' seem to view the question as impertinent. The conference's predominant theme was that a single high standard of academic achievement is, in itself, discriminatory.
Autumn 1994 - Downward Mobility
The City University of New York, once a premier institution, is paying the price for abandoning academic standards in the 1960s.
Summer 1994 - Asbestos and TB: A Tale of Two Crises
Health Hazards, Real and Imagined
Winter 1994 - The New Community Activism
Social Justice Comes Full Circle
Autumn 1993 - Deinstitutionalizing the Mentally Ill
Spring 1993 - Have We Crossed the Line?
The Human Cost of Deinstitutionalization
Winter 1993 - Spreading the Blame Too Thin
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