From City Journal’s Symposium Series
A symposium on anti-Semitism in the United States
Proposals to reinvigorate American dynamism, innovation, and self-sufficiency
Proposals for reversing America’s criminal-justice decline
A symposium on restoring the principle of color blindness
Podcasts
City Journal’s 10 Blocks podcast features rich conversations on public policy and culture with host Brian C. Anderson.
In the Risk Talking podcast, host Allison Schrager—economist, journalist, and author—discusses cutting-edge economics in plain language.
The Drug Legalization Disaster
States rush to legalize recreational pot, even as evidence of its harms grows.
On an enduring but wrongheaded temptation
The White House is set to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, dismissing Obama-era findings in the process.
Among the bad options offered by a bad idea—marijuana legalization—state-run stores might be the least bad.
Oregon’s decriminalization law has transformed large parts of Portland’s downtown into an open-air drug market.
As de facto drug legalization expands, substance abuse is driving a child-welfare crisis.
Gotham’s post-pandemic economic-development strategy: gambling and weed
An exploding black market in states that legalized pot has sparked another government war on marijuana.
The government pays homeless addicts to stay on drugs and alcohol.
Contrary to advocates’ promises, legalizing pot has spurred new illegal enterprises.
New York’s city council bans employers from testing for pot use, which will lead to nothing but trouble.
A trendy new book recycles the same old case for normalizing drug use.
The Spotlight
America is much more than merely “an idea”—but unless we recover that idea and an attachment to it, we cannot recover ourselves.
Speech given at Philadelphia, July 5, 1926
What are we without them?
Rodney Cook, Jr.’s Atlanta project seeks to reinvigorate American civic art.
Concerns about future Covid lockdowns are conspiracy theories, insists the New York Times—but what credibility does the paper have to assure anyone?
Unlike their predecessors of a century ago, New York’s progressives seem dedicated to destroying urban life.
The Left has done far more than the Right to set back progress.
Neither a utopian totalitarian nor a libertarian fundamentalist, the Bard offers no easy answers to the questions that have always confronted us.
It is unequivocally the intended result of Biden administration policy.
Seventy-five years after the Normandy landings, reflections on America’s troubled subsequent history
One man’s D-Day
A half-century later, the Kerner Report’s fame overshadows its mistaken analysis of urban riots and blindness to racial progress.
