A Brewing Rebellion in the Emerald City

Seattle residents are losing patience with the city’s out-of-control homelessness problem. | Continue reading


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Rebelicious A visit to the Fête de l’Humanité in Paris, a Marxist jamboree

A visit to the Fête de l’Humanité in Paris, a Marxist jamboree | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Let’s Ban Car Alarms

These infernal gadgets shatter urban civility, while doing not a nickel’s worth of good. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Theophrastus’ Characters: An Ancient Take on Bad Behavior

A new translation of Theophrastus offers humorous and insightful glimpses into personality types—including our own. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Worst Union in America (2012)

How the California Teachers Association betrayed the schools and crippled the state | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

What the current political climate is doing to our country and our universities

What the current political climate is doing to our country and our universities | Continue reading


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When Boz Came to Town: Remembering Charles Dickens’s First Visit to New York

Remembering Charles Dickens’s first visit to New York | Continue reading


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Seattle’s Homeless Challenge

10 Blocks Podcast | Continue reading


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Seattle Under Siege

Record numbers of homeless people are occupying the city’s public spaces, despite massive government spending to fight the problem. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Columbus, OH fires on all cylinders–demographic, economic, and cultural

Columbus, Ohio, is firing on all cylinders—demographically, economically, and culturally. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Soutine

Chaim Soutine’s consoling portraiture | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged HSR (High-Speed Rail) Project

California’s mismanaged high-speed rail project has gone on for long enough. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

San Francisco’s mandated $15-an-hour law is exacerbating homelessness

San Francisco’s mandated $15-an-hour law is exacerbating homelessness. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Sears

From Sears Roebuck to Amazon in four uneasy upheavals | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Continually Mistaken, Chronically Admired

The work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is a study in elite myopia. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Medicare for All

It’s possible to make the health benefit available to everyone, but the government wouldn’t have enough money to do much else. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Gender Is a Construct–Except When It’s Not

For academic feminists, male and female biology is either interchangeable or immutable, depending on what complaint they need to lodge. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

The Battle for Houston

America’s most opportunity-rich city faces a long-term challenge from “smart-growth” advocates pushing for more regulation. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

The Revolution Against the Revolution: Looking Back on Shays’ Rebellion

Looking back on Shays’ Rebellion | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Precision Policing

Data, discretion, and community outreach can ensure a new era of public safety. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Lagos: Hope and Warning

Nigeria’s mega-city, bursting with opportunity but strained with disorder, offers a cautionary preview of the future. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Setting a Bloody Century in Motion

One hundred years ago, the Bolsheviks’ slaughter of the Romanovs prefigured seven decades of Communist tyranny. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

California, Poverty Capital

Why are so many people poor in the Golden State? | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Trials

Notable British Trials is as complete an inventory of human depravity as has ever been assembled. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Who’s Really to Blame at the Border?

The current distress and hysteria is the fault of illegal aliens and their enablers in the courts. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Manufacturing a Comeback

Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star and is generating new industrial jobs. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Return of the Notman: The Poems of Robinson Jeffers

Robinson Jeffers’s philosophy of “inhumanism” resounds in these difficult times. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

What’s Really Wrong with WikiLeaks (2010)

The dissolution of privacy is a fundamental aim of totalitarianism. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

What's really wrong with WikiLeaks -T. Dalrymple (2010)

The dissolution of privacy is a fundamental aim of totalitarianism. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Bring Back Stigma

Without it, we become a shameless society—with some disastrous consequences. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

Dodging the Trump Bullet

Americans—and Republicans—are lucky that the Donald has bowed out. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences

Universities and other institutions are watering down requirements in order to attract more women and minorities. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 5 years ago

No, Teachers Are Not Underpaid

Salaries lag in some states, but nationally, wages and benefits outpace the private sector. | Continue reading


@city-journal.org | 6 years ago