Spring 2014

2014
John O. McGinnis Machines v. Lawyers

As information technology advances, the legal profession faces a great disruption.

Kay S. Hymowitz Brooklyn’s Chinese Pioneers

Hardworking Fujianese immigrants use the borough as a launching pad to the middle class.

Charles Lane Baltimore Behind Bars

Public-union power enabled scandalous corruption among the city’s correctional officers.

Howard Husock A Connecticut Yankee in Appalachia

Alice Ely Chapman wages a one-woman war on poverty.

Myron Magnet Liberty or Equality?

The Founding Fathers knew that you can’t have both.

Nicole Gelinas New York’s Next Public Safety Revolution

The city’s ambitious plan to combat dangerous and often deadly driving

Steven Malanga Brennan’s Revenge

State judicial activism has cost taxpayers billions in unfunded mandates and thwarted efforts to control spending.

Victor Davis Hanson Lawmakers Gone Wild

California’s once-exemplary legislature now manages to be both trivial and destructive.

Aaron M. Renn The Bluest State

Decades of liberal policies have made Rhode Island the nation’s basket case.

Michael J. Totten The Last Communist City

A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see

Urbanities

Adam Kirsch What’s Left of Malcolm Cowley

The famed critic’s insight deserted him when it came to politics.

Eugene Kontorovich When Fasces Aren’t Fascist

The strange history of America’s federal buildings

Urbanities

Adam Kirsch What’s Left of Malcolm Cowley

The famed critic’s insight deserted him when it came to politics.

Eugene Kontorovich When Fasces Aren’t Fascist

The strange history of America’s federal buildings

Soundings

Heather Mac Donald Back to Welfare’s Future in New York

Mayor Bill de Blasio sets out to dismantle the reforms of the Giuliani-Bloomberg era.

Stephen Eide Operation Get Galante

Union-supported politicians go after the head of the Queens public library system.

Mark Pulliam Home-Care Workers or Union Troops?

The Supreme Court reconsiders a crucial labor precedent.

Theodore Dalrymple Cruel When Not Kind

On sentimentality and brutality, two sides of a coin

Nicole Gelinas Could Drive You to Drink

Albany butts in, “protecting” New Yorkers from good, affordable Italian wine.

Soundings

Heather Mac Donald Back to Welfare’s Future in New York

Mayor Bill de Blasio sets out to dismantle the reforms of the Giuliani-Bloomberg era.

Stephen Eide Operation Get Galante

Union-supported politicians go after the head of the Queens public library system.

Mark Pulliam Home-Care Workers or Union Troops?

The Supreme Court reconsiders a crucial labor precedent.

Oh, to be in England

Theodore Dalrymple To Have or to Be?

Personal responsibility plays a role in obesity.

Oh, to be in England

Theodore Dalrymple To Have or to Be?

Personal responsibility plays a role in obesity.

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