Autumn 2024
Looking Back on October 7
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.
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
Democrats’ abandonment of their traditional blue-collar constituency is bad for their party—and for the country.
Rather than embrace the good, the true, and the beautiful, many of the schools have adopted the politically correct fads of secular universities.
Christopher Lasch’s cultural criticism anticipated our narcissistic age.
The federal government is spending too much on post-disaster rebuilding and too little on prevention.
Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare.
Governments’ use of the pandemic to claim sweeping new emergency powers has had destructive effects.
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.
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.