City Journal Audio

Author  Joanna Williams  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss progressivism in the United Kingdom, whether wokeness is an American export, and the effects of activism on the publishing industry. Her new book,  How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement that Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason , is out now.

Former attorney general  William Barr discusses the twentieth-century crime wave, the strategies that reversed it, and the risk of bad policy unleashing a wave of violence.

Americans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, these classifications are ubiquitous in American life—and their boundaries are policed by the government. On this week's special episode, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and director of constitutional studies Ilya Shapiro  moderates a panel featuring  David Bernstein , professor at the George M...

On this special episode of 10 Blocks, Manhattan Institute fellow and  City Journal  contributing editor  Charles Fain Lehman is joined by the Cato Institute's Emily Ekins ,  The Spectator' s  Ben Domenech , and  National Review' s  Nate Hochman to discuss the public-policy implications of cultural disputes.

Stephen Eide  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss his new report on the continuum of care, proposing a structure for mental-health systems across the United States. His new report, authored with MI adjunct fellow Carolyn Gorman, is out this week.

Political scientist and MI adjunct fellow  Michael Hartney  joins  Theodore Kupfer to discuss education policy, the political power of teachers' unions, and democratic contestation in the public school system. His new book, How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education , is out this month.

MI fellow  Robert VerBruggen  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the Biden administration's executive actions on student debt, the growing higher-education bubble, and the enduring relevance of Charles Murray's work on social policy.

Martin Gurri  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the loosening elite grip on power, the fractured media landscape, and information flows in a world of democratic contestation.

City Journal  contributing editor  Judge Glock  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss public policies that encourage drug addiction, the relationship of drug abuse to homelessness and crime, and the wisdom of government intervention in the economy.

MI senior fellows  Eric Kober  and  Michael Hendrix discuss the housing market in New York City. They're joined by Rebecca Baird-Remba  of Commercial Observer and  David Schleicher  of Yale Law School.

Fiscal-policy expert and MI senior fellow  Brian Riedl  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss Joe Manchin's reconciliation deal on climate change, health care, and taxes; new subsidies for the semiconductor industry; and the future of federal policymaking in an inflationary environment.

Rafael A. Mangual  and  Peter Moskos  discuss the causes of the post-2020 crime spike, how violence affects everything from quality of life to childhood education, and the distance between theory and practice in the criminal-justice world. Mangual's new book,  Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most , is out now.

Oliver Traldi  joins  Theodore Kupfer to discuss the role of expertise in American life, the origins and future of wokeness, and the sources of political belief.

Former Popular Mechanics editor and new Manhattan Institute senior fellow  James B. Meigs  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the state of the global energy economy, the technological innovations that could make energy use more efficient, and the bad policies that contributed to the current crunch.

Former secretary of education  Betsy DeVos  joins  Reihan Salam to discuss the case for school choice, the curriculum wars, and the need for educational transparency.

Nicole Gelinas ,  Rafael A. Mangual , and  Robert VerBruggen  join  Brian Anderson to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in  NYSRPA  v.  Bruen , including its possible effects on public safety in New York City, the implications of its legal reasoning, and the likely response by city and state lawmakers.

Urban planner and Mercatus Center scholar  M. Nolan Gray  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss municipal zoning's past, present, and future. His new book,  Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It , is out now.

Harvard professor and human evolutionary biologist  Joseph Henrich  discusses the psychological, cultural, and institutional roots of Western development. His latest book,  The WEIRDest People In the World , received the Manhattan Institute's 2022 Hayek book prize.

San Francisco–based journalist  Erica Sandberg  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the Chesa Boudin recall election, the broad-based coalition of voters who ousted the district attorney, and whether this week marks a mere blip for the city or the beginning of a new era.

MI senior fellow  Stephen Eide  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the meaning of homelessness, how the concept has evolved over the course of U.S. history, and the public-policy roots of the nation's current homelessness crisis.

On this week's special episode, communications consultant  Yael Bar Tur,  police chief  Art Acevedo , and Secret Service communications chief  Anthony Guglielmi  joined  Rafael A. Mangual to discuss law enforcement in the time of the Internet.

Professor  Daniel J. Mahoney  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss history's great statesmen, the classical and Christian underpinnings of their virtues, and attempts to write certain figures out of history. His new book,  The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation , is out now.

Former prosecutor and new Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow Thomas Hogan joins Brian Anderson to discuss America's best—and worst—district attorneys, the Chesa Boudin recall campaign, and the future of "progressive prosecution" in the United States.

Nicole Gelinas  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the consequences of inflation in New York City and the impact of rising subway crime.

TechFreedom Internet policy counsel  Corbin K. Barthold  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss Elon Musk's successful bid for Twitter and its implications for free speech, tech regulation, and the Internet.