Looking Back on October 7
How Hamas finally exposed the mainstream media’s apologia
Was the Jewish state lulled into slumber by a false sense of normality?
Citizens of the Jewish state must recover the single-minded attention to security that typified their country’s early days.
Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel is part of an unfolding great-power conflict.
We need to extinguish the fires of tribalism before they burn us all up.
No choice that Israel makes can avoid civilian casualties—a reality that will test the support of the civilized world.
As ever, the barbarians are within the gates.
Viewing current conflicts through the lens of faith can help us see things more clearly.
From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on higher education in the United States
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
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.
The Spotlight
A new biography of Pete Rose is as addictive to read as it once was to watch him play.
Elon Musk’s remarkable career reminds us that individuals matter.
The late historian Fred Siegel saw families and economic opportunity as essential to urban life.
There is some of Shakespeare’s incorrigible rogue in all of us.
The ambivalence of life in a great city
Revisiting the still-controversial work of urbanist Edward Banfield can help put race relations, education, housing, crime, and other policy debates into a broader perspective.
As increasing numbers of American males seem adrift, they can no longer look to venerable publications for guidance.
Comparing women’s magazines, then and now, shows how much America has changed.
The Chinese sci-fi trilogy that spawned Netflix’s 3 Body Problem suggests that maybe humanity would be better off alone.
Progressive policies penalize those who play by the rules and shower benefits on those who don’t.
A report from the front lines
Looking back on a Chicago childhood in the 1940s
White parents of school shooters are culpable; black parents of inner-city gangbangers are blameless.
The working-class Pennsylvania city is struggling to adapt to a heavy influx of Hispanics from New York.
Plummeting birthrates threaten prosperity worldwide. Can America buck the trend?
Ernst Jünger’s unblinking literary vision captured an age of technology, political upheaval, and destruction.
Watergate and Nixon’s resignation, 50 years on
Reflecting on Bobby Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination
Activists bring the movement’s spirit and ideology into a growing number of secondary and even elementary schools.
The sport as we know it is changing forever.
