Rent Control The Entrenched vs. the Newcomers: 2019 James Q. Wilson Lecturecity-journal.org - Edward L. Glaeser Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Coming up on today’s show, listeners will …
Bill de Blasio Save the Robotscity-journal.org - Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, the New York-based communications firm. His latest book is Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live. New York’s mayor has a plan to address the displacement of workers through automation: Bill de Blasio wants the federal government to enact a “robot …
Bankruptcy Generous Motors No Morecity-journal.org - Steven Malanga is the senior editor of City Journal, the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer. “G.M. Workers Say They Sacrificed, and Now They Want Their Due,” a headline in the New York Times declares. Another explains, “For G.M. Workers, …
Women's News Women and the Family Trackcity-journal.org - Scott Yenor is a professor of political science at Boise State University. Contemporary civil rights thinking sees discrimination as the cause of every disparity between groups. The remedy, progressives believe, is a …
Traffic Safety and Datacity-journal.org - Lewis Lehe Congestion pricing offers New York City an opportunity to get to the root of its traffic problems.
eCigarettes A Bad Case of the Vaporscity-journal.org Public health officials’ war on nicotine vaping will lead more people to smoke tobacco cigarettes.
Housing A Conspiracy of Entitled Incumbentscity-journal.org - Howard Husock, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of the new book, Who Killed Civil Society: The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms. Less than a year after California voters rejected rent control in a statewide ballot proposition, Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation …
Uber For-Hire Backfirecity-journal.org - Phillip Sprincin California’s new regulation on Uber and Lyft risks harming a huge segment of the economy—and misses a chance to define a new category of worker.
Antifa Keep Soccer Apoliticalcity-journal.org - Emmett Hare is a political consultant in Brooklyn. Major League Soccer this year implemented a policy prohibiting the display by fan clubs of certain types of signs and banners during games, …
Bathtubs Urbanites Leave Natural Habitatcity-journal.org - Janice Meyerson Scheindlin has been for many years an opera singer on the international stage, where her credits include Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde with Leonard Bernstein and the Philadelphia Orchestra. After 30 years in New York City, my husband and I bought a converted barn upstate as a second home. Our Upper West Side building houses well over 200 …
Black Panther Party Black Lives Matter Comes to the Classroomcity-journal.org - Peter C. Myers is a professor of political science at University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and visiting scholar at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, Heritage Foundation. Black Lives Matter, though less prominent in the headlines of late, continues to be quite a growth story. What began in 2013 as a hashtag propagated …
Jerry Nadler Executive Privilege is Fundamentalcity-journal.org - Craig Trainor is a criminal defense and civil rights attorney in New York City. Twitter: @TrainorLaw The House Judiciary Committee, led by Democratic congressman Jerry Nadler, is moving steadily toward initiating impeachment proceedings against …
Welfare Welfare Reform’s Payoffcity-journal.org - Kay S. Hymowitz New data from the Census Bureau shows that female-headed households are lifting themselves out of poverty through work.
Housing The Left’s Surging Urban Activismcity-journal.org - Christopher F. Rufo City Journal contributing editor Christopher Rufo joins Brian Anderson to discuss an increasingly influential progressive faction in many cites—one …
Economics The Redistribution and Regulation Partycity-journal.org - John O. McGinnis Democratic presidential candidates have abandoned the idea of economic growth.
Islamic State (ISIS) Target: New Yorkcity-journal.org - Judith Miller Eighteen years after the 9/11 attacks, Islamist extremism doesn’t make much news—but not for lack of trying.
Transit If You Improve It, They Will Comecity-journal.org - Aaron M. Renn is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. Mass transit is the lifeblood of coastal cities like New York, Washington, and Philadelphia, but Midwest cities also rely on mass transportation, and …
Plastic Environmental Playactingcity-journal.org - Heather Mac Donald Today’s youth will fight climate change, we’re told—but they’re no more willing to give up luxuries than anyone else.
Housing Why Opportunity Zones Won’t Workcity-journal.org - Howard Husock, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of the new book, Who Killed Civil Society: The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms. Democrats and Republicans alike have hailed the Opportunity Zone tax credit as a brilliant idea to revitalize impoverished areas by encouraging …
Foster Care Wanted: More (and Better) Foster Parentscity-journal.org - Naomi Schaefer Riley Church-based programs aim to prepare families for the challenge of taking in kids in need.
Climate Grandiose, Coercive, and Expensivecity-journal.org - James B. Meigs is the former editor of Popular Mechanics and cohost of the How Do We Fix It? podcast. Watching the Democratic presidential candidates on CNN’s seven-hour town hall on climate change was like attending the shot-put competition at a …
Computers Computer Pseudosciencecity-journal.org - Edward Feser A new book suggests that the real danger of artificial intelligence is that it will remain dumber than we are.
Capitalism Capitalist Critics on the Rightcity-journal.org - Christian Alejandro Gonzalez Peter Kolozi’s intellectual history is mostly fair and judicious—but for his conviction that conservatives are incapable of humanitarian sentiments.
Ransomware The Rise of Municipal Ransomwarecity-journal.org - Kara Frederick America’s smallest cities and towns stand on the frontlines of cyber warfare.
Brexit Party Boris Johnson’s Big Betcity-journal.org - Oliver Wiseman Britain faces a major political crisis.
Housing The Rise of the New Left Urbanistscity-journal.org - Christopher F. Rufo is a contributing editor of City Journal and a documentary filmmaker. America’s big cities are, without exception, politically blue cities, with a new class of progressive politicians doing real damage to public order. …
Private Schools Under Assault: New York’s Private and Parochial Schoolscity-journal.org - Peter Murphy Will the Regents and education bureaucrats succeed in forcing nonpublic schools to conform to unprecedented state control?
Cities Give Charter Cities a Second Lookcity-journal.org - Mark Lutter In a rapidly urbanizing world, an innovative idea seems more relevant than ever.
New York City Council New York City Transit, with Speaker Corey Johnsoncity-journal.org - Seth Barron Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. Coming up on the show today, my colleague, …
Referendums Endless Tantrumcity-journal.org - Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal, the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of many books, including Out into the Beautiful World and the recently published Grief and Other Stories. He is a retired psychiatrist who, most recently, practiced in a British inner-city hospital and prison. You would have thought, from the howls of outrage that greeted Boris Johnson’s temporary suspension of Parliament, that he had appointed himself …
