The Urban Violent Crime Spike Is Real | City Journal
WEBApr 30, 2024 · Americans are worried about crime on their streets, but President Biden and the mainstream press corps don’t think that they should be. ABC News claims that “violent crime is dramatically falling.” NBC News asserts that “the drop in crime does not appear to be well understood by large majorities of Americans.” And in his State of the Union …
Tocqueville, Then and Now | City Journal
WEBOct 30, 2023 · Alexis de Tocqueville, it’s fair to say, is more often cited than read. His oeuvre is enormous; the commonly used quotations—typically taken from Democracy in America, with a few, perhaps, coming from The Old Regime and the Revolution—provide an easy shortcut.More rarely, one will encounter a comment extracted from his remarkable …
Warren Buffett’s Missed Opportunity | City Journal
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Warren Buffett’s Missed Opportunity. The mogul could have created a nonprofit to challenge the Gates Foundation’s dominance. In 2006, Warren Buffett pledged most of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He told Fortune that he had always planned to give the money away, but “I came to realize that there was a terrific ...
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WEB4 days ago · 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 Manhattan Institute works to keep America and its great cities …
The Fed Tied Its Own Hands | City Journal
WEBAug 21, 2024 · By throwing caution to the wind in 2021 and delivering far too much stimulus through today, government policy created an inflation problem, still with us, that has narrowed the Fed’s options. Were inflation in recent quarters 1.8 percent instead of 3.3 percent, the Fed would have eased aggressively by now. Instead, its hands have been tied.
The Magazine - City Journal
WEBThe author’s final, unfinished novel fused intimations of American decline with an encroaching sense of his own mortality. Stephen Eide When Heroin Hit Jazz. Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.
There Is No Substitute for Proactive Policing - City Journal
WEBJul 30, 2020 · There Is No Substitute for Proactive Policing. History and experience demonstrate that focusing exclusively on violent felonies will fail in fighting crime. Many advocates of “defunding the police” contend that too many police encounters with civilians concern trivial matters. Defunding proponents worry that poor decisions by officers can ...
Double Standards at Princeton - City Journal
WEBNov 3, 2023 · On July 4, 2020, a few hundred of my then-colleagues at Princeton University signed an open letter endorsing a number of student demands made in the name of “anti-racism” and proposing such alarming policies as the creation of a faculty committee to police “racist behaviors.” Four days later, I published a lone dissent in which I …
How the News Got Woke—and Why It Matters - City Journal
WEBNov 19, 2021 · Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, by Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter Books, 234 pp., $28.99) As books go, 2020 was meritocracy’s annus horribilis. Daniel Markovits warned of The Meritocracy Trap, while The Tyranny of Merit earned Michael Sandel several book-of-the-year awards. Both books pointed to …
Heterodox Journalism in the Ivy League | City Journal
WEBAug 9, 2024 · Heterodox and conservative journalism is undergoing a revival in the Ivy League. That the Ivy League, even with its progressive intellectual conformity, should periodically give rise to new conservative voices shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has engaged with young conservatives attending one of these schools.