City Journal
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City Journal is a quarterly magazine, published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a conservative think tank based out of New York City. Its current editor is Myron Magnet and many of its articles focus on urban policy. It has been described by London's Daily Telegraph as "the Bible of the new urbanism". Although the magazine is based in New York City, it covers issues of national scope. Additionally, there is often a British perspective from Anthony Daniels, better known by his pen name of Theodore Dalrymple. The magazine is notable among political journals for its ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Public Enemy Number One
In 1978, Howard Jarvis launched the U.S. anti-tax movement in California with Proposition 13, which capped annual increases in property taxes and kept people from being forced ... -
Sisterhood and the SEALs
It was just a matter of time before the successful Navy SEAL operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 provoked a complaint that SEAL teams are all-male.Posted by Jon Mitchell -
The Silicon Lining
California’s innovative high-tech firms keep creating wealth, but will bad state policies drive them out?Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
America’s Food Revolution
The U.S. has revolutionized its culinary culture over the last 40-odd years. No longer is it the developed world’s worst food nation; in fact, it’s perhaps the best. And ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Obsessive Housing Disorder by Steven Malanga, City Journal Spring 2009
Almost everything that the Times accused the Bush administration of doing has been pursued many times by earlier administrations, both Democratic and Republican—and often ...Posted by Lee Barry -
The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo
() Kosovo’s brand of Islam may be the most liberal in the world. I saw no more women there wearing conservative Islamic clothing—one or two per day at most—than I’ve seen ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Humanities Move Off Campus
() Until recently, classical education served as the foundation of the wider liberal arts curriculum, which in turn defined the mission of the traditional university. Classical ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Taxachusetts No More?
() Thanks to the tenacity of Carla Howell of the Committee for Small Government, voters may be able to eliminate Massachusetts’s income levy through Question 1 of a ballot ...Posted by Roland F. Hirsch -
America at Work
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The Audacity of Humility
() Such phrases are MIA from Obama transcripts. In fact, he drops the “when I’m president” line so often that his electoral win might as well be a foregone conclusion. (As ...Posted by Chris Finnie



