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A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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May 2012

Nicole Gelinas
It’s Not About Jamie Dimon | We should look to markets, not men, to govern the economy.
14 May 2012

Clark Whelton
SugarHouse Rules | On certain aspects of Charles Murray’s new book
11 May 2012

Harry Stein
Chronicle of Servile Education | A respected publication caves to racial bullying.
8 May 2012

Harry Stein
Romney and Race | Advice for the GOP’s presumptive nominee
7 May 2012

Paul Howard
An FDA That Works for Children | New legislation would support and advance pediatric research.
7 May 2012

Guy Sorman
An Uncommitted Socialist | François Hollande, the new French president
6 May 2012

Nicole Gelinas
The Life of Zachary | Imagining how the next generation will fare in the Obama administration’s scenario
4 May 2012

Nicole Gelinas
Get the Government Out of Student Loans | A lesson in college financing—and a lost opportunity for Mitt Romney
2 May 2012

Emily Washington
Historic Preservation and Its Costs | We can save the most valuable buildings without banning all new development.
2 May 2012

Christian Schneider
Unions Versus the Poor | As Wisconsin government workers protest, Governor Walker spends more on the needy and sick.
1 May 2012

April 2012

Theodore Dalrymple
Leniency and Its Costs | In Britain, the bill comes due.
24 April 2012

Heather Mac Donald
Granting Absurdity | The GSA scandal obscures a broader problem: the shell game of federal largesse.
23 April 2012

Claire Berlinski
Supping Full with Horrors | A social evening with Turkish outcasts
23 April 2012

Steve Cohen
Vegan Cops | Keeping the NYPD ticket-fixing scandal in perspective
18 April 2012

Judith Miller
Pulitzers for Nothing | The award says more about the state of mainstream journalism than about the NYPD.
18 April 2012

Heather Mac Donald
The New York Times’s Welfare Myopia | Poverty remains a story of bad decision-making and out-of-wedlock child-rearing.
16 April 2012

Kay S. Hymowitz
Time for AIDS Activists to Get Real | New York’s remarkable magnanimity—and changing times—don’t matter to embittered advocates.
12 April 2012

Guy Sorman
Growing Out of Poverty | A World Bank report makes clear how free markets—and U.S. leadership—have led millions to better lives.
9 April 2012

Theodore Dalrymple
A Little “Respect” Goes a Long Way | The odious George Galloway wins a parliamentary election in Britain.
6 April 2012

Harry Stein
A Nation of Candor? | The conversation Eric Holder doesn’t want us to have about race
4 April 2012

March 2012

Herbert London
A Small Pension Step | New York’s new law reduces costs, but not enough.
30 March 2012

Guy Sorman
Integration, Not Ideology | The French civic model will survive the recent terror.
28 March 2012

Myron Magnet
“What a Brilliant Man!” | Hilton Kramer, 1928–2012
27 March 2012

Paul Howard
A Somber Anniversary | Health-care reform isn’t playing out as advertised.
27 March 2012

Harry Stein
Guilt, Innocence, and Hoodies | Thoughts on the Trayvon Martin tragedy
22 March 2012

Theodore Dalrymple
Scotland’s Choice | Independence could arouse national pride; it might also force self-sufficiency.
22 March 2012

Nicole Gelinas
Of Muppets and Manhattan | Goldman Sachs’ woes are Gotham’s.
15 March 2012

Theodore Dalrymple
Rotting from the Head Down | A member of Britain’s intellectual elite celebrates his nation’s social collapse.
8 March 2012

Kay S. Hymowitz
The Empiricist | James Q. Wilson’s prodigious learning—and modest temperament—will be missed.
5 March 2012

Heather Mac Donald
Man of Reason | James Q. Wilson’s thinking about crime and policing saved lives and transformed cities for the better.
4 March 2012

Andrew Klavan
The Breitbart Building | In memoriam: Andrew Breitbart, 1969–2012
1 March 2012

February 2012

Marcus A. Winters
Cuomo’s Teaching Moment | The New York governor secures a breakthrough agreement on teacher evaluation.
29 February 2012

Nicole Gelinas
Bailing Out Mitt | Romney needs to explain himself better on free markets and the financial system.
24 February 2012

Nicole Gelinas
The Rental Mania That Wasn’t | A New York Times article hypes the city’s apartment-rental market, with little evidence.
14 February 2012

Christian Schneider
Minority Rule’s Last Gasp in Wisconsin | Public-sector unions find a candidate to run against Scott Walker.
14 February 2012

Nicole Gelinas
Who Pays? | From breast implants to diabetes, Western health care is a mess.
3 February 2012

January 2012

Marcus A. Winters
How’s My Teaching? | More policymakers are adopting evaluation systems based on classroom performance.
20 January 2012

Judith Miller
The State of the NYPD | Technology and private philanthropy help keep the department at the top of its game.
18 January 2012

Nicole Gelinas
A Triple-A Headache | S&P’s latest downgrades may split the longstanding “Merkozy” alliance.
17 January 2012

Theodore Dalrymple
The Less Deceived | In Britain, school inspections have been a charade.
10 January 2012

Clark Whelton
Shale Game | New York State is a lonely holdout against the natural-gas revolution.
8 January 2012

Joel Kotkin, Fred Siegel
The New Authoritarianism | A firm hand for a “nation of dodos”
6 January 2012

Theodore Dalrymple
Revelry and Mayhem | Is that British youths enjoying themselves—or killing someone?
5 January 2012

Claire Berlinski
Subtergenekon and Other Crimes | In Turkey, alleged terrorism requires a brand-new vocabulary.
3 January 2012

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