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Summer 2008.
City Journal Summer 2008.
A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson.

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Obama, Shaman.
Michael Knox Beran
Obama, Shaman
The candidate’s post-masculine charisma tempts America in the age of Oprah.
Coming Soon
The NYPD Diaspora.
Heather Mac Donald
The NYPD Diaspora
Former New York cops bring cutting-edge, effective policing to beleaguered communities.
Economics Does Not Lie.
Guy Sorman
Economics Does Not Lie
The dismal science is at last a science—and the world is the beneficiary.
The Professional Panhandling Plague.
Steven Malanga
The Professional Panhandling Plague
A new generation of shakedown artists hampers America’s urban revival.
Houston, New York Has a Problem.
Edward L. Glaeser
Houston, New York Has a Problem
The southern city welcomes the middle class; heavily regulated and expensive Gotham drives it away.
New York's Next Fiscal Crisis.
Nicole Gelinas
New York’s Next Fiscal Crisis
Mayor Bloomberg needs to prepare the city for the crash of the Wall Street gravy train.
A Marshall Plan for Reading.
Sol Stern
A Marshall Plan for Reading
How New York schools can close the racial achievement gap
The Future of Conservative Books.
Harry Stein
The Future of Conservative Books
As mainstream publishers’ flirtation with the Right cools, smaller houses are stepping in.
Health Care's New Entrepreneurs.
Paul Howard
Health Care’s New Entrepreneurs
Innovators are bringing consumer-oriented medicine to market, with promising results.
Departments.
Oh, to be in England
Childhood's End.
Theodore Dalrymple
Childhood’s End
Britain, land of bleak houses and low expectations
Diarist
John Renehan
I Am Not Having a Crisis
CJ Online.
Books and Culture.
Fred Siegel
What Might Have Been
Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich were making progress on entitlement reform, until . . .
18 July 2008
Laura Vanderkam
Still Made for You and Me
If America is so bad, why is Barbara Ehrenreich so successful?
16 July 2008
Tim Connors
Counterterrorist Tales
Michael Sheehan remembers 30 years of fighting bad guys.
11 July 2008
Eye on the News.
Marc Epstein
The Regents, Stuck on Stupid
New York’s statewide exams get a little dumber every year.
23 July 2008
Theodore Dalrymple
La Cité, C’est Moi
Vainglorious French architects set out to destroy Paris.
22 July 2008
Nicole Gelinas
America, Too Big to Fail . . . Probably
The feds can bail out Fannie and Freddie, but who will bail out the feds?
16 July 2008
CJ Authors.
Paul Beston
Wall Street Journal
| A Look Back At the New Age
Steven Malanga
RealClearMarkets
| In the U.S., Selectively Applied Capitalism
Nicole Gelinas
Investor’s Business Daily
| Uncle Sam Can Bail Out Fannie, But Who’ll Bail Out Uncle Sam?
Heather Mac Donald
New York Post
| Mike’s Misstep
CJ in the News.
Protein Wisdom | Have You No Shame, Man?
Brothers Judd | Blew That One
NRO: Phi Beta Cons | How About a Nice Magic Trick?
Power Line | Obama, shaman
Urbanities.
Benjamin Franklin: City Slicker.
Jerry Weinberger
Benjamin Franklin: City Slicker
The self-styled country mouse was in truth America’s first great urbanist.
In Living Black-and-White.
Stefan Kanfer
In Living Black-and-White
The old classics retain a vitality and beauty that color can’t provide.
Soundings.
Andrew Klavan
Braggistan in the America of the Imagination
Why the military loses the information war
Judith Miller
Intelligent Policing Comes to New Jersey
A state revolution in tracing guns, mapping crimes, and sharing information
Steven Malanga
Organizer in Chief
Barack Obama could become our first community-activist president.
André Glucksmann
Olympic Crossroads
It’s right for Western democracies to put pressure on Beijing.
Nicole Gelinas
Construction Safety Woes
More building shouldn’t mean more deaths.