City JournalKanye West Kanye v. Cancel Culture city-journal.org - Rav Arora No matter what the rapper says or does, unforgiving scolds lie in wait.
City JournalEmployment My Union Square city-journal.org - Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and the author of many books, including Founders’ Son; James Madison; Right Time, Right Place; Alexander Hamilton, American; and Founding Father. Union Square is a three-block pause in Manhattan’s matrix. It was named neither for labor unions nor for the union of states but for the union of …
City JournalCities Cities and Memory city-journal.org - Theodore Dalrymple is a contributing editor of City Journal, the Dietrich Weismann Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of many books, including Not with a Bang but a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline. The first time I visited New York, between 40 and 50 years ago, it was a place of ill repute, at least among foreigners. Rumor and report made the …
City JournalLong-form Journalism A Writer’s Honor city-journal.org - Jonathan Clarke Acclaimed novelist Richard Ford comes under fire for reckless past behavior.
City JournalStudents Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay city-journal.org - Roy Speed On learning to write by reading
City Journal The Fred Davis Blues city-journal.org - Howard Husock is vice president for research and publications at the Manhattan Institute and a City Journal contributing editor. I always wondered what might have happened to Fred Davis. I would be reminded of him by the half-inch, reel-to-reel tape recording of his music, of …
City JournalMozart The Abduction of Opera city-journal.org - Heather Mac Donald Mozart’s lighthearted opera The Abduction from the Seraglio does not call for a prostitute’s nipples to be sliced off and presented to the lead …
City JournalAncient Philosophy Not Quite the Playboy Life city-journal.org - Michael Gibson A new book makes a spirited, if flawed, defense of Epicurean philosophy.
City JournalArt Finding Hope At the Concert Hall city-journal.org - Heather Mac Donald is the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of the bestseller The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. Sometimes an artistic experience can assume an elevated sense of urgency due to its context. After 9/11, the Berlin Philharmonic’s performance of …
City JournalMedia Industry Journalists Against Free Speech city-journal.org - John Tierney Once unswerving defenders of the First Amendment, members of the press increasingly support restricting expression.
City JournalMusic Music: The Rebel Art Form city-journal.org - Ted Gioia Music critic and historian Ted Gioia joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss the 4,000-year history of music as a global source of power, …
City Journal Modern Art of the Deal city-journal.org - Nicole Gelinas With its bold makeover, MoMA flaunts the power that matters in Manhattan: extra space.
City JournalLong-form Journalism The End of Men’s Magazines city-journal.org - Brian Patrick Eha is the author of How Money Got Free and a journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Fortune, and other publications. When Jay Fielden, late of Esquire, announced his departure as editor-in-chief this past May, he did it in foppish style. An Instagram post showed him …
City Journal Degrading a Masterpiece city-journal.org - Catesby Leigh writes about public art and architecture and lives in Washington, D.C. Current architectural-alteration plans for the Frick Collection on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—which appear likely to clear their final regulatory …
City JournalLong-form Journalism Wisdom in Your Pocket city-journal.org - Tracy Lee Simmons is the author of Climbing Parnassus. He teaches humanities in the Westover Honors College at the University of Lynchburg, in Virginia. Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Series by Cicero, Seneca, et al. (Princeton University Press) Back in the 1940s, C. S. Lewis remarked on a trend …
City Journal Watching and Its Implications city-journal.org - Jonathan Clarke Reflections on violence in sports
City Journal The Age of Mutual Assured Cancellation city-journal.org - John Tierney is a contributing editor of City Journal and a contributing science columnist for the New York Times. A modest proposal for my fellow journalists: Could we declare a bipartisan amnesty for the stupid things people did in high school and college—or at …
City Journal Pedal Power city-journal.org - Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington. On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City, by Evan Friss (Columbia University Press, 256 pp., $30,00) It’s been a hellish year for …
City Journal The Court of Youth city-journal.org - Fred Siegel Roger Simon’s new novel is a thoughtful exploration of aging, family—and tennis.
City Journal Forgotten Britain city-journal.org - Oliver Wiseman is a British journalist based in Washington, D.C., and the coauthor of Brexit Revolt: How the U.K. Voted to Leave the EU. Little Platoons: How a Revived One Nation Can Empower England’s Forgotten Towns and Redraw the Political Map, by David Skelton (Biteback Publishing, …
City Journal Soundings Photos city-journal.org - John Anderson /Photographs by John Anderson/Alamy Stock Photo/ …
City Journal Misjudging Clarence Thomas city-journal.org - Myron Magnet Corey Robin’s Account Of The Clarence Thomas Is Lost In Left Field.
City Journal Black Sox Forever city-journal.org - Harry Stein is a contributing editor of City Journal and the author of many books, including Hoopla, a novel about the Black Sox scandal. October marks the centenary of what remains by far the greatest scandal in American sports history. When eight members of the Chicago White Sox—known …
City Journal Misleading Vital Signs city-journal.org - Milton Ezrati is a contributing editor at The National Interest, an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Human Capital at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), and chief economist for Vested, the New York-based communications firm. His latest book is Thirty Tomorrows: The Next Three Decades of Globalization, Demographics, and How We Will Live. Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?, by David G. Blanchflower (Princeton University Press, 456 pp., $29.95) David Blanchflower’s Not …
City Journal Keep Soccer Apolitical city-journal.org - Emmett Hare MLS is right to ban partisan banners at games.
City JournalArtificial Intelligence Computer Pseudoscience city-journal.org - Edward Feser’s most recent book is Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science. The AI Delusion, by Gary Smith (Oxford, 249 pp., $27.95) Artificial intelligence may prove more dangerous as it advances, but it will never generate …
City Journal Capitalist Critics on the Right city-journal.org - Christian Alejandro Gonzalez Peter Kolozi’s intellectual history is mostly fair and judicious—but for his conviction that conservatives are incapable of humanitarian sentiments.
City JournalLong-form Journalism F. Scott Fitzgerald, Socialist Version city-journal.org - Edward Short is the author, most recently, of Newman and History, which is published by Gracewing. Paradise Lost: A New Life of Scott Fitzgerald, by David S. Brown (Harvard University Press, 397 pp., 29.95) The essence of revisionist history is …
