Winter 2025

2025
Christopher F. Rufo Counterrevolution Blueprint

How to eliminate left-wing racialism from the federal government

Abigail Shrier Cabinet of the Canceled

Trump has chosen people who understand the threat of government coercion—because they have experienced it firsthand.

Martin Gurri Lost in the Funhouse

Democrats need to find a way out of their house of mirrors.

John Ketcham New York, After November 5

Will Donald Trump’s multiethnic coalition remake state and city politics?

Sanjana Friedman Urban Anarchy

A San Francisco nonprofit’s rise illustrates the unaccountable growth of homeless services.

Charles Fain Lehman Inside the East Coast’s Largest Open-Air Drug Market

Can Philadelphia clean up Kensington’s squalor?

Anthony A. Braga Policing as Public Health

Why Broken Windows still applies

Leor Sapir Gender Medicine on the Ropes

From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits.

Steven Malanga Gone to Pot

Legalizing weed has provided fewer benefits and more hazards than supporters promised. Time for a rethink.

James B. Meigs The Legal War on Greenpeace

Seeking payback for the violent protests that disrupted its Dakota Access project, pipeline company Energy Transfer targets Greenpeace with a potentially groundbreaking lawsuit.

Tal Fortgang The Rise of Civil Terrorism

Radicals seek the demise of the West through organized criminal mayhem—here’s how to stop them.

Eric Kober The Inescapable Robert Moses

Though New York City planners want to live in the world of Jane Jacobs, they plan around the physical legacy of the master builder.

Andrey Mir An Obit for Journalism

The death of objectivity has been both cause and effect.

Howard Husock Unfreezing New York’s Projects

Two emerging NYCHA developments point the way toward a reimagination of public housing.

Urbanities

Brian Patrick Eha Herald of Modernism

Gustave Flaubert’s consuming pursuit of literary perfection

Urbanities

Brian Patrick Eha Herald of Modernism

Gustave Flaubert’s consuming pursuit of literary perfection

Soundings

Judge Glock The Housing Election

High costs affecting renters and homeowners loomed large in voters’ minds last November.

Steven Malanga Red-Hot Economies

Republican-led states have benefited massively in an era of one-party domination of local government.

Seth Barron New York’s Prostitution Problem

The state’s commitment to decriminalization has made city residents more vulnerable to crime and disorder.

Jason Bedrick An ESA Lesson from Arizona

Parents in the state still value education savings accounts for their kids, but they’re increasingly frustrated with the program’s bureaucratic overreach.

Theodore Dalrymple Essentialism in the U.K.

The Conservative Party’s recently elected new leader, Kemi Badenoch, is black—but not black enough, for some, because of her political views.

Soundings

Judge Glock The Housing Election

High costs affecting renters and homeowners loomed large in voters’ minds last November.

Steven Malanga Red-Hot Economies

Republican-led states have benefited massively in an era of one-party domination of local government.

Seth Barron New York’s Prostitution Problem

The state’s commitment to decriminalization has made city residents more vulnerable to crime and disorder.

Jason Bedrick An ESA Lesson from Arizona

Parents in the state still value education savings accounts for their kids, but they’re increasingly frustrated with the program’s bureaucratic overreach.

Oh, to be in England

Theodore Dalrymple The Boris Enigma

Behind the former prime minister’s frivolous facade, was there a bedrock of seriousness?

Oh, to be in England

Theodore Dalrymple The Boris Enigma

Behind the former prime minister’s frivolous facade, was there a bedrock of seriousness?

Diarist

Robert Henderson Chaotic Permanence

New York City Diarist

Diarist

Robert Henderson Chaotic Permanence

New York City Diarist