Pervasive anti-American sentiment jeopardizes our ability to sustain a republic.

A growing culture of Third Worldism—the belief that you’re entitled to use public spaces without any responsibility to care for them—is corroding civic life in cities.

The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring.

A union-backed bill to prohibit one-person train operation threatens to derail cost-cutting efforts.

The Austrian capital’s government-led housing policy is a cautionary tale for New York City.

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Fake MAGA influencers advance agendas aligned with hostile foreign states.

The longtime City Journal writer and contributing editor has died at 89.

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After a quiet start, the SEC is rolling back Biden-era rules on ESG investing and corporate shareholder activism.

A group of academics, intellectuals, and civic leaders call on the president to advance these principles for reform of our universities.

The organization has peddled pseudoscience to vulnerable kids.

Schools shouldn’t let “equity” concerns prevent them from embracing artificial intelligence.

The former Treasury secretary oversaw a more “brutal” policy when he was in government.

President Trump should act to clean up urban disorder.

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

The reforms will make a modest dent in the Golden State’s massive housing shortage.

Paid for with a permanent tax hike, the Texas city’s ambitious Project Connect initiative has delivered on few of its promises.


Both Democrats and Republicans have exaggerated the bill’s fiscal effects.

The Austrian capital’s government-led housing policy is a cautionary tale for New York City.

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Fake MAGA influencers advance agendas aligned with hostile foreign states.

The longtime City Journal writer and contributing editor has died at 89.

City Journal Podcast

After a quiet start, the SEC is rolling back Biden-era rules on ESG investing and corporate shareholder activism.

A group of academics, intellectuals, and civic leaders call on the president to advance these principles for reform of our universities.

The organization has peddled pseudoscience to vulnerable kids.

Schools shouldn’t let “equity” concerns prevent them from embracing artificial intelligence.

The former Treasury secretary oversaw a more “brutal” policy when he was in government.

President Trump should act to clean up urban disorder.

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

The reforms will make a modest dent in the Golden State’s massive housing shortage.

Paid for with a permanent tax hike, the Texas city’s ambitious Project Connect initiative has delivered on few of its promises.


Both Democrats and Republicans have exaggerated the bill’s fiscal effects.

The Austrian capital’s government-led housing policy is a cautionary tale for New York City.

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Fake MAGA influencers advance agendas aligned with hostile foreign states.

The longtime City Journal writer and contributing editor has died at 89.

Gotham’s next mayor must retain Jessica Tisch, hire more officers, and halt the plan to close Rikers Island.

The NYPD needs a clear directive: the public and city government want cops to take a more preventative approach to mental illness-related disorder.

With deteriorating quality of life and high housing costs pushing New Yorkers to leave, the city's value proposition must improve.

Getting control of the city’s finances will require confronting labor on benefit costs and resistance to innovation.

The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement.

It contributes to universities’ left-wing bent.

The RISE UPP initiative appears to be using applicants’ “commitment to diversity” as a proxy for race.

Universities have gone from arguing that science is biased to claiming that even the overhead on their massive federal research budgets must not be cut.

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

Internal documents reveal how administrators use “diversity checks” to influence the hiring process and engage in discrimination.

The university’s FIRST program mandated “diverse” lists of finalists.

The Department of Justice should investigate for a potential violation of the Civil Rights Act.

The California governor attended a luxury wine-tasting during the recent riots.

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”

Without building a talent pipeline to rival that of the DEI cartel, reformers’ efforts to fix universities are bound to fall short.

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

The fellow-to-faculty model helps administrators strong-arm academic departments into hiring their preferred candidates.

President Christopher Eisgruber has created a system of widespread racial discrimination.

The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement.

It contributes to universities’ left-wing bent.

The RISE UPP initiative appears to be using applicants’ “commitment to diversity” as a proxy for race.

Universities have gone from arguing that science is biased to claiming that even the overhead on their massive federal research budgets must not be cut.

At the Socialism 2025 conference in Chicago, mainstream academics called for revolution.

Internal documents reveal how administrators use “diversity checks” to influence the hiring process and engage in discrimination.

The university’s FIRST program mandated “diverse” lists of finalists.

The Department of Justice should investigate for a potential violation of the Civil Rights Act.

The California governor attended a luxury wine-tasting during the recent riots.

The company allegedly required managers to reward employees “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance.”

Without building a talent pipeline to rival that of the DEI cartel, reformers’ efforts to fix universities are bound to fall short.

The university has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.

B4U-ACT is part of a growing movement to legitimize sexual attraction to children.

The fellow-to-faculty model helps administrators strong-arm academic departments into hiring their preferred candidates.

President Christopher Eisgruber has created a system of widespread racial discrimination.

The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

The campaign against Elon Musk’s company is hardly a grassroots movement.

It contributes to universities’ left-wing bent.

The RISE UPP initiative appears to be using applicants’ “commitment to diversity” as a proxy for race.

Universities have gone from arguing that science is biased to claiming that even the overhead on their massive federal research budgets must not be cut.


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There is some of Shakespeare’s incorrigible rogue in all of us.

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