Spring 2024
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
How a lifelong New Yorker became tribune of the rustics and deplorables
His magazine, George, was ahead of its time in viewing politics as popular culture.
Even New York Times readers are rejecting the identity politics that put her on the 2020 ticket.
If Joe Biden’s running mate ever becomes president, she would nationalize California’s increasingly feudal political and economic order.
The party’s leadership class cares much more about identity politics than its voting base does.
Meet Kamala Harris, California attorney general, aspiring senator . . . and future president?
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
Rodney Cook, Jr.’s Atlanta project seeks to reinvigorate American civic art.