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Lance Morrow Time Runs Out

Henry Luce and his empire belonged to another country, another era.

Feb 09 2018
Lance Morrow Profane Reality, Sacred Memory

Reflecting on Bobby Kennedy, 50 years after his assassination

Lance Morrow Journalism Dies in Self-Importance

As Ted Koppel has recognized, today’s media embrace the darkness of their own biases.

Mar 22 2019
Lance Morrow D-Day, and a Summer of Anniversaries

Seventy-five years after the Normandy landings, reflections on America’s troubled subsequent history

Jun 05 2019
Lance Morrow Dismal Sequels

Twenty years after 9/11, Afghanistan has reverted to the Taliban and America has disappeared down a rabbit hole.

Sep 09 2021
Lance Morrow Walls, Doors, and Names

Memorial Day in an unnerved America

May 27 2022
Lance Morrow Me and the Bentley

A car should be a costar, a romance, a myth—not a robot

Jun 16 2023

From City Journal’s Symposium Series

Which Way the University?

A symposium on higher education in the United States

Fighting the Oldest Hate

A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States

Symposium: An Economic Agenda for the Next President

Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency

Symposium: A New Anticrime Agenda

Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline

How to Defeat Left-Wing Racialism

A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness

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The Spotlight

Lance Morrow To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth

The greatness, and darkness, of Henry Kissinger

Nov 30 2023
Jason L. Riley Philanthropy and Black Education

A noble—and poorly understood—American tradition

Darran Anderson Seer of the Selfie

Christopher Lasch’s cultural criticism anticipated our narcissistic age.

Theodore Dalrymple The Rimbaud of Cwmdonkin Drive

Dylan Thomas, the last true bohemian

Anthony Hennen The Pan-American Holiday

Without the religious roots of Christmas, Thanksgiving serves as an occasion to celebrate country and family.

Nov 23 2022
James Piereson Martyr of the Cold War

John F. Kennedy was murdered by a Communist in an age of superpower tensions—but 60 years later, a counterfactual mythology continues to mislead Americans.

Nov 17 2023
Catesby Leigh A Stirring Monument to America’s Warriors

Sabin Howard’s A Soldier’s Journey brings a cinematic approach to the Great War—and defies the arrogance of Washington’s cultural elites.

Sep 27 2024
Ian Penman Elusive Harmony

Levon Helm, The Band, and the birth of Americana

Martin Gurri Prologue to an Ideology of Freedom

The will to liberty can overcome the will to power.

Judge Glock A New Supply-Side Agenda

How to remove the barriers holding back the American entrepreneurial spirit

Philip Hamburger How Government Agencies Usurp Our Rights

The federal bureaucracy increasingly acts as prosecutor, judge, and jury.

Theodore Dalrymple The Cheapest Insult

The reductio ad Hitlerum: a refuge of tired minds

Fred Bauer A Transformed Party

Republicans’ high-spirited convention, culminating in Donald Trump’s acceptance speech, exemplified the changes the GOP has undergone since 2016.

Jul 19 2024
Aaron M. Renn Winner

Facing long odds, Donald Trump rewrote the political playbook.

Nov 09 2016
Victor Davis Hanson Trump and the American Divide

How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables

Myron Magnet Why Are Voters So Angry?

They want self-government back.