Paul Beston
His famous last words may be a myth, but the nation he helped found is a triumphant reality.
I’ve started to think it’s the wigs. That has to be why American movies so rarely render the astonishing story of the nation’s founding effectively or memorably. In an irony-soaked age, how do you walk around in breeches and face powder, expounding on the rights of man, knowing that your efforts will be ridiculed within 12 hours of release by Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart? . . .
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Heather Mac Donald
Is the Criminal-Justice System Racist?
No: the high percentage of blacks behind bars reflects crime rates, not bigotry.
Max Schulz
California’s Potemkin Environmentalism
A celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs.
Arthur C. Brooks
Free People Are Happy People
—especially when strong personal morality guides their choices.
Christopher Hitchens, Kay S. Hymowitz, Stefan Kanfer, Guy Sorman, Harry Stein, Sol Stern
May 1968: 40 Years Later
Six City Journal authors recall a spring that shook the world.
Bruce Bawer
An Anatomy of Surrender
Motivated by fear and multiculturalism, too many Westerners are acquiescing to creeping sharia.
Steven Malanga
The Death and Life of Bushwick
A Brooklyn neighborhood finally recovers from decades of misguided urban policies.
Nicole Gelinas
The Big Easy Rebuilds, Bottom Up
Ordinary New Orleanians restore their city, avoiding lower Manhattan’s master-planned debacle.
Judith Miller
The Other Terrorism
Post-9/11, Spain’s Basque terrorists are on the run—but still a threat.
Michael J. Totten
Hope for Iraq’s Meanest City
How the surge brought order to Fallujah
Oh, to be in England
Theodore Dalrymple
A Confusion of Tongues
Why Britain struggles to assimilate immigrants
Diarist
Andrew KlavanStory Time
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Bruce S. Thornton
Religion and the Age
George Weigel gives Christian answers to the West’s most pressing questions.
27 June 2008
John Robb
Fear Factor
Surviving a disaster often depends on self-control.
21 June 2008
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Heather Mac Donald
Grill Power
Elitist feminism and the New York Times
1 July 2008
Nicole Gelinas
Tangled Power Lines
It’s time Con Ed had a long-term capital improvement plan.
30 June 2008
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Myron Magnet
Mr. Sammler’s City
Saul Bellow’s prophetic 1970 novel captured New York’s unraveling and remains a cautionary tale.
Roger Scruton
Cities for Living
Antimodernist Léon Krier designs urban environments to human scale.
Steven Malanga
Illegal in More Ways than One
Identity theft in America goes hand and hand with illegal immigration.
David Gratzer, Paul Howard
Mandates Are Not the Answer
Barack Obama has it (mostly) right.
Nicole Gelinas
Boston Battles Foreclosures
But Beantown isn’t home free yet.
Walter Olson
Get Sued, All Ye Faithful
Activists seek to shut down churchgoer insurance.
Bradley A. Smith
Stacking the Deck
Gotham’s campaign-finance law creates first- and second-class citizens.
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