|
[SORT BY TITLE] [SORT BY DATE]
Myron Magnet [33 titles]
- The Godfather, R.I.P.
Irving Kristol, realist, humanist, institution-builder, friend
18 September 2009 - Conservative Revolutionaries
How the Lees of Stratford Hall made and unmade an empire
Summer 2009 - The Obsolete New York Model
Where a tax-eating majority votes itself a permanent income
16 July 2009 - Alexander Hamilton, Modern America’s Founding Father
How New York’s opportunity society became America’s
Winter 2009 - The Public-Sector House of Cards
Autumn 2008 - The Great African-American Awakening
Some brave voices are shifting the conversation from victimhood to responsibility.
Summer 2008 - Mr. Sammler’s City
Saul Bellow’s prophetic 1970 novel captured New York’s unraveling and remains a cautionary tale.
Spring 2008 - The Unbought Grace of Life
Remembering William F. Buckley, Jr.
27 February 2008 - Architecture’s Battle of the Modernisms
. . . and what it means for Gotham’s future
Winter 2008 - Monticello’s Shadows
What Jefferson’s fabled home reveals about the Founding Father’s mind and heart
Autumn 2007 - In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains
Elite hypocrisy, gangsta culture, and failure in black America
Summer 2007 - Walter B. Wriston
1919–2005
Spring 2005 - Compassionate Conservative or Cowboy Capitalist?
The president understands that opportunity is the best poverty program.
Spring 2005 - “The Gates” on the Road to Serfdom
There’s a whiff of totalitarianism in Christo’s scheme.
14 February 2005 - Walter B. Wriston, 1919–2005
A great banker, New Yorker, and friend
21 January 2005 - Gotham, GOP Poster Child
Why New York is the right place for the Republican Convention
24 August 2004 - The War on Poverty at 40
We've learned what uplifts—and what doesn’t.
Summer 2004 - What Use Is Literature?
Aristotle perhaps didn’t go far enough when he said that tragedy was more philosophic than history, concentrating as it does on what might be rather than merely on what had been.
Summer 2003 - Taxi Busters
The Bloomberg administration has begun a misguided war on livery cabs.
14 May 2003 - The Monument They Deserve
Our memorial to the victims of the World Trade Center attack should be an affirmation of our values, not just a cry of grief.
Spring 2002 - London’s Crime Wave
. . . and why it’s surging.
20 February 2002 - Roger Starr 1918–2001
Roger Starr, City Journal’s editor from 1992 to 1993 and a contributor to the magazine since its birth 12 years ago, died in September at the age of 83.
Autumn 2001 - Solving President Bush’s Urban Problem
The new president’s compassionate conservatism can help cities—and woo urban voters.
Winter 2001 - A New Lincoln Center
Let’s tear down the crumbling structures and start over. Here are plans by architects Quinlan Terry, Robert Adam, and the firm of Franck Lohsen McCrery.
Autumn 2000 - The Cosmic Cathedral
By now all New Yorkers know of that extraordinary millennial apparition on the West Side: the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History.
Spring 2000 - More Humbug or Homelessness
Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign has brought all the advocates' discredited ideas back to life.
Winter 2000 - Fred Rose
Frederick P. Rose, who died on September 15 at the age of 75, was one of New York's great philanthropists, a worthy modern representative of a tradition that has given Gotham many of the world-class institutions that make it unique.
Autumn 1999 - Elect, Don’t Settle
Something bad happens to New York City if Mayor Giuliani runs for the U.S. Senate in 2000 and wins: Public Advocate Mark Green becomes mayor for the remaining year of Giuliani's term.
Spring 1999 - Civility for All
So far, Mayor Giuliani's civility initiative, announced last January, has one win, one loss.
Autumn 1998 - A Sweetheart Deal
In May, New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, fulfilling a campaign promise, proposed what would be America's most sweeping domestic partnership benefits for the unmarried companions, whether heterosexual or homosexual, of New York City's municipal employees or of anyone taking advantage of city services like public housing.
Summer 1998 - Putting Children First
Welfare reformers are failing to ask the basic question: How can we help the children who are the current system's victims?
Summer 1994 - The Cultural Dimensions of Social Change
Spring 1993 - Deinstitutionalizing the Mentally Ill
Spring 1993
In Prospects:
|
|
