Review of "The Fourth Turning Is Here" by Neil Howe - City Journal
Sep 3, 2023 · The Fourth Turning Is Here, by Neil Howe (Simon & Schuster, 592 pp., $32.50) “The old American republic is collapsing. And a new American republic, as yet unrecognizable, is under construction.”. The opening line of historian Neil Howe’s The Fourth Turning Is Here (2023) jumps to the point. It also foreshadows the odd dualistic theme that ...
Heather Mac Donald | City Journal
Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. She is a recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize. Mac Donald’s work at City Journal has covered a range of topics, including higher education, immigration, policing, homelessness and homeless advocacy, criminal-justice reform, and …
The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour | City Journal
Oct 23, 2022 · Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an expression of LGBTQ pride. The intellectual debate has even spilled into real-world conflict: […]
On Race and Crime, a Counterfactual Narrative | City Journal
Apr 25, 2023 · Every news outlet that covered the shooting led with the race of Yarl and of Lester. Yarl was inevitably identified as a “Black” teenager and Lester as a “white” homeowner. The Kansas City district attorney validated the race narrative. The shooting had a “racial component,” the prosecutor said, without offering evidence.
A Tour of New York's Clubland - City Journal
A Tour of New York's Clubland. The convenient thing about New York, Bertie Wooster said in the very first of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Bertie stories, is that it’s right there when you get off the boat. I belong to a generation which, regrettably, never sees the towers of Manhattan and the Empire State Building come up over the horizon.
The Truth About White Flight - City Journal
Dec 23, 2020 · S peaking at an October 2019 Obama Foundation Summit, Michelle Obama reminisced about growing up in South Shore, a Chicago lakefront neighborhood. Some memories were bitter. The former First Lady, born in 1964, lamented living through “white flight.” As “upstanding families like ours, who were doing everything we were supposed to do . . . moved in,” she said, “white folks moved out.”
Mayoral Candidates on NYPD Subway Shooting | City Journal
Sep 25, 2024 · Empty and Unserious. After a rare subway police shooting, New York City’s aspiring mayoral candidates demonstrate how unsuited they are to handle crime. More than a week after NYPD officers fired on an agitated man armed with a knife after repeatedly warning him to drop his weapon, New York’s aspiring mayors are still voicing their outrage.
Christopher F. Rufo | City Journal
Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute. He is also a contributing editor of City Journal, where his writing explores a range of issues, including critical race theory, gender ideology, homelessness, addiction, crime, and the decline of American cities. Rufo has been published in …
A Shape-Shifting Diversity Program | City Journal
Oct 9, 2024 · A Shape-Shifting Diversity Program. The University of Wyoming’s DEI office has closed, but new initiatives have taken its place. Demographic shifts and declining enrollments are hitting the University of Wyoming, the Cowboy State’s only four-year public university. UW enrolled fewer than 11,000 students in the fall semester of its 2023 ...
California’s Looming Crime Catastrophe | City Journal
May 19, 2024 · Spring 2024 / Share. On July 13, 2020, gunfire broke out between two cars in the Bay Area town of Antioch, California. One of the cars’ occupants, Daunzhay Young, was hit during the fusillade and was rushed to the hospital. Young survived—this time. Oakland’s gang wars were radiating outward, including to this once-bucolic city northeast ...