Spring 2024
From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States
Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency
Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline
A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness
Podcasts
City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson.
In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language.
Steven Malanga on Progressive Policies and Their Consequences
The state’s punishing tax structure yields a staggering decline in revenues.
State and local governments are spending billions on migrants and asylum seekers—and the bill will only grow steeper.
Retail crime is driven by reduced penalties and organized gangs, not economic hardship.
Advocates argue that development in urban communities displaces the poor, but their efforts to limit building will worsen America’s housing crisis.
Local governments are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in federal handouts for dubious needs.
Viewing discrimination as deeply rooted, municipal and school officials are pushing controversial new programs to boost minority outcomes.
The Spotlight
America is much more than merely “an idea”—but unless we recover that idea and an attachment to it, we cannot recover ourselves.
Speech given at Philadelphia, July 5, 1926
Rodney Cook, Jr.’s Atlanta project seeks to reinvigorate American civic art.
Concerns about future Covid lockdowns are conspiracy theories, insists the New York Times—but what credibility does the paper have to assure anyone?
Unlike their predecessors of a century ago, New York’s progressives seem dedicated to destroying urban life.
The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress.
Neither a utopian totalitarian nor a libertarian fundamentalist, the Bard offers no easy answers to the questions that have always confronted us.
It is unequivocally the intended result of Biden administration policy.
Seventy-five years after the Normandy landings, reflections on America’s troubled subsequent history
A half-century later, the Kerner Report’s fame overshadows its mistaken analysis of urban riots and blindness to racial progress.