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City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine.

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New York State
Making Affordable Housing Even Scarcer
city-journal.org - Howard Husock
New York’s new rent-regulation law will only further discourage investment in building construction.
Cathedrals
After the Fire
city-journal.org - Guy Sorman
In the pending reconstruction of Notre-Dame, the French national character endures.
Democratic Party
New York’s Jilted Silent Majority
city-journal.org - Michael Dresdale
Democratic support for illegal-immigrant drivers’ licenses runs counter to public opinion.
United Kingdom
Rushing to Judgment
city-journal.org - Theodore Dalrymple
Two recent incidents reveal the craven impulses of the British elite.
Catholicism
A Catholic Crisis in the Rust Belt
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Charles McElwee joins Seth Barron to discuss the decline of the Catholic Church in the Rust Belt and the impact of immigration on a working-class …
Summer Reading, with City Journal
city-journal.org - Brian C. Anderson
City Journal editor Brian Anderson joins Vanessa Mendoza, executive vice president of the Manhattan Institute, for our second annual discussion of …
University of North Texas
Reimagining Legal Education, Part 2
city-journal.org - Mark Pulliam
Not all experiments will be successful, especially if the premises are unsound.
Purdue University
Returning Due Process to Campus
city-journal.org - KC Johnson
The latest federal court decision in a campus sexual assault case is a reminder that accused students deserve a fair hearing.
E-Verify
Preventing Illegal Employment is Key to Deterring Illegal Immigration. | Heather Mac Donald, City Journal
city-journal.org - Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture.
Donald Trump was elected president because a large segment of the American public was fed up with the government’s failure to stop mass illegal …
White Supremacism
Who Commits Most of the World’s Extremist Violence?
city-journal.org - Seth Barron
Evil as they are, white supremacists aren’t even close to the top of the list.
New York State
Shivering Upstate
city-journal.org - Clark Whelton, a New York–based writer, was a speechwriter for New York City mayors Edward Koch and Rudolph Giuliani.
Governor Andrew Cuomo recently said that population losses in New York State—which has the highest outmigration in the U.S.—are “climate-based.” The …
New York City
Bring Back Boomtown
city-journal.org - Aaron M. Renn
New York needs to think like a growth city again.
Millennials
In Defense of Houses
city-journal.org - Joel Kotkin
Single-family homes are the backbone of American aspiration—so why do so many people oppose them?
Nuclear Energy
Dark Days Ahead?
city-journal.org - James B. Meigs
Saturday night’s Manhattan blackout could be a harbinger of things to come.
James Harden
Our James Harden Economy
city-journal.org - Oren Cass
Wins without broader benefits, in sports and in the marketplace
Ethanol
Giving in to Big Corn
city-journal.org - Colin A. Carter
Consumers will suffer the hangover from the feds’ ethanol binge.
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcherism Without Thatcher
city-journal.org - Alberto Mingardi
Four decades after her triumph, what lessons can we draw from Britain’s first female prime minister?
Scranton, PA
Insult to Injury in the Rust Belt
city-journal.org - Charles F. McElwee
The region’s economic problems are challenging enough, but political corruption makes them even harder to address.
San Francisco Bay Area
Restoring Order on BART
city-journal.org - Phillip Sprincin
In its transit system, at least, San Francisco may be rediscovering what New York City learned a generation ago.
Charter Schools
“Woke” Politics Over Progress in New York Schools
city-journal.org - Ray Domanico
Brian Anderson: Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal. New York City Public Schools is the largest …
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris’s Wrongheaded Housing Plan
city-journal.org - Howard Husock
The presidential candidate proposes $100 billion to help minority homebuyers, but such interventions always make things worse.
Ross Perot
A Whole Lot of America
city-journal.org - Paul Beston
Ross Perot, R.I.P.
Joe Biden
Biden’s Busing Backtrack
city-journal.org - John S. Rosenberg
The Democrats have abandoned traditional definitions of civil rights.
Boise, ID
Courting Homelessness
city-journal.org - Steven Malanga
Boise, Idaho asks the Supreme Court to reverse rulings that shackle its attempts to clear city streets.
Lawsuits
Welcome to California
city-journal.org - Kerry Jackson
After decades of red tape, some developers are seeing their projects through.
Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Now
city-journal.org - Aaron M. Renn
The hub of the New South is no longer a go-go city, and it needs to adjust to that reality.
Austerity
Required Economic Reading
city-journal.org - Milton Ezrati
An important new book offers clear insights about austerity policy.
Herbert Hoover
Conservatism’s Historian
city-journal.org - Christian Alejandro Gonzalez
George H. Nash has chronicled the goals and ideals of the American Right for nearly 50 years.
Home Ownership
Britain’s Housing Crisis
city-journal.org - Sam Watling
Homeowners in the U.K. are addicted to the shortage that drives up their property values.
United States
America in Full
city-journal.org - Tim Rice
Wilfred McClay’s /Land of Hope/ proves that there is no contradiction between knowing American history and loving America.

City Journal

City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine.