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Stefan Kanfer
New York’s long literary line
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Brian C. Anderson
In Prospect
Twenty years of City Journal
Steven Malanga
The Next Wave of Urban Reform
Mayors Cory Booker and Dave Bing fight to save two of America’s most distressed cities.
Edward L. Glaeser
Start-Up City
Entrepreneurs are the heroes of New York’s past and the key to its future.
Brandon Fuller, Paul Romer
Cities from Scratch
A new path for development
Heather Mac Donald
The Sidewalks of San Francisco
Can the City by the Bay reclaim public space from aggressive vagrants?
Nicole Gelinas
Big Easy Rising
Five years after Katrina, New Orleanians are showing how to do recovery right.
Andrew Klavan
The Windows
A short story
Howard Husock
Atlanta’s Public-Housing Revolution
Renee Glover has torn down blighted projects, required tenants to work, and transformed lives.
Judith Miller
The Afghans of Fremont
Anxious, uprooted—and under surveillance
William Voegeli
How the Road to Bell Was Paved
Not with good intentions but with the avarice of professional government bureaucrats
Claire Berlinski
Weimar Istanbul
Dread and exhilaration in a city on the verge of political catastrophe
Guy Sorman
Asian Megacities, Free and Unfree
How politics has shaped the growth of Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul
Sol Stern
Now City
Tel Aviv, a modern, capitalist-built oasis in the Middle East
André Glucksmann
The Original Birth of Freedom
What we owe the audacious Athenians
Victor Davis Hanson
The Destiny of Cities
Throughout history, forces both natural and human have made cities rise and fall.
Myron Magnet
How American Press Freedom Began on Wall Street
A 1735 libel trial in New York’s City Hall proved revolutionary.
Christopher Hitchens
In Search of the Washington Novel
A colorful genre awaits its masterpiece.
Oh, to be in England
Theodore Dalrymple
The Vandals in Retreat
Britain rediscovers its architectural heritage.
Diarist
Harry Stein
Boxing with My Wife
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Stefan Kanfer
Illusions
Harry Houdini always stressed that his miraculous tricks were the product of art, not the supernatural.
19 November 2010
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André Glucksmann
Guilty of Being Right
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is being punished for the Russian regime’s sins.
28 December 2010
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Brian C. Anderson
Hands Off the Net
Congress wisely resists the urge to regulate cyberspace.
28 June 2006
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Fred Siegel
Upstate: Rage or Resignation?
North and west of the city, New Yorkers are fed up.
Conor Friedersdorf
An Innovator in Every Apartment
Cities should unravel their pre-digital regulations.
Kay S. Hymowitz
Fragile Urban Families
New findings show just how bad things are for the kids.
Steven Malanga
The Man That Bankrupted Harrisburg
A debt-loving mayor has busted the budget of Pennsylvania’s capital.
Michael Knox Beran
Rhyme Scheme
An NEA initiative debauches the educational value of verse.
Benjamin A. Plotinsky
The Bus Market Booms
Innovators are making travel affordable, with no foe in sight but the feds.
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