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ALINARI ARCHIVES/THE IMAGE WORKS Theodore Dalrymple Everyone on the Couch Today’s psychiatry undermines self-reliance and morality. KEEP READING

A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute, edited by Brian C. Anderson. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Get online updates: Search the website:	Peter W. Huber Who Owns the Code of Life? Washington control of genetic data would send us down the road to medical serfdom. Nicole Gelinas Too Convoluted to Succeed Why Dodd-Frank won’t prevent another financial crisis PODCAST: Nicole Gelinas discusses this story Sol Stern The Closing of Diane Ravitch’s Mind A once-great education scholar rejects everything she previously believed. Guy Sorman The Philanthropic Spectacle When giving is more about show than results PODCAST: Guy Sorman discusses this story Heather Mac Donald California’s Prison-Litigation Nightmare Activist judges are forcing the state to release prisoners—and crime is spiking. Kay S. Hymowitz Boy Trouble Family breakdown disproportionately harms young males—and they’re falling further behind. Wendell Cox Sunny Again Having weathered the worst of the housing collapse, Florida’s economy is heating up. Stephen Eide The New York Public Library’s Uncertain Future A proposed renovation threatens one of the world’s great research institutions. John Armstrong What Is Art For? To help us live better, more flourishing lives Myron Magnet Tom Paine’s Two Radicalisms And their consequences—for his era and ours Steven Malanga The War Hero New York Forgot Virginia-born Winfield Scott forged his destiny in the city. Scott Winship The “Two Cities” Myth Whatever Bill de Blasio may think, New Yorkers’ incomes rise and fall together. Fred Siegel Botching Bloomberg The New Yorker gets the mayor’s mixed legacy wrong. Steven Malanga Bailouts for Cities? Advocates for cash-strapped municipalities want Washington to clean up their mess. PODCAST: Steven Malanga discusses this story Ethan Epstein Washington’s Battle of the Skyline The rent is too high; the buildings are too low. Brian C. Anderson In Prospect Letters Contributors Diarist Miguel Monjardino A Liberal Education


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Arthur C. Brooks What Really Buys Happiness? Not income equality, but mobility and opportunity Summer 2007 KEEP READING
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Seth Barron discusses Power to the Progressives 6 December 2013 Steven Malanga discusses Bailouts for Cities? 26 November 2013 Nicole Gelinas discusses Too Convoluted to Succeed 26 November 2013 More . . .
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