Darran Anderson is the author of Imaginary Cities and Inventory.

Mathis Bitton is a Ph.D. student in political theory at Harvard University and a Krauthammer Fellow at the Tikvah Fund.

Jose Corpas, a native of Brooklyn, is the author of two books, including Black Ink.

Theodore Dalrymple is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.

Ray Domanico is a senior fellow and the director of education policy at the Manhattan Institute.

Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the forthcoming Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car, from which this essay is adapted.

Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst and the author of The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.

John Ketcham is the Director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute.

Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of When Race Trumps Merit.

Steven Malanga is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and City Journal’s senior editor.

Jordan McGillis is the economics editor of City Journal.

Hannah E. Meyers is a fellow and the director of public safety at the Manhattan Institute.

Jacob Siegel is a Tablet contributing editor and is writing a book for Henry Holt about the rise of the Information State, which will be published in 2026.

Symposium:

Christina Buttons is an investigative reporter at the Manhattan Institute. Freddie deBoer is the author of How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement and The Cult of Smart. Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a 2024–25 Public Scholar at the City College of New York’s Moynihan Center. Carolyn D. Gorman is a Paulson Policy Analyst at the Manhattan Institute. John Hirschauer is an associate editor at City Journal. Robert G. Marbut Jr. is the former executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness and producer of the upcoming films No Address and Fentanyl: Death Incorporated. Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Leighton Woodhouse is a reporter and documentary filmmaker based in Oakland.

Soundings:

Seth Barron’s next book, Weaponized, will be published in 2025. Judge Glock is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Eugene Kontorovich is the director of the Center for the Middle East and International Law at George Mason University’s Scalia Law School. Chris Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Artists:

David Grossman is an American photographer living in Brooklyn.  David Hollenbach is an illustrator whose work has appeared in publications such as Sports Illustrated, Forbes, and Business Week.

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