City Journal Audio

Heather Mac Donald , the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of  City Journal , joins  Brian C. Anderson  to discuss her new book,  When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives .

George C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University School of Law and  City Journal contributing editor John O. McGinnis joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the results of Chicago's mayoral election.

Evolutionary biologist and Manhattan Institute fellow  Colin Wright  joins  Brian C. Anderson to discuss the male–female distinction and regulating gender medicine. 

Finance professional and Venice Neighborhood Council member  Soledad Ursúa  joins  Brian C. Anderson to discuss California's plan to offer reparations to black residents descended from slaves.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow and  City Journal  contributing editor  Nicole Gelinas  joins  Brian C. Anderson to discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the stability of our financial system. 

MI senior fellow  Christopher F. Rufo  and journalist  Abigail Shrier  join  Brian C. Anderson  to discuss their stories in  City Journal 's new  California special issue and the long-term trajectory of the Golden State.

New York City Department of Corrections commissioner  Louis A. Molina  joins Manhattan Institute fellow and  City Journal  contributing editor  Charles Fain Lehman to discuss the state and future of the Rikers Island jail complex.

Manhattan Institute senior fellow  Brian Riedl  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the debt ceiling, the limits of prioritization, and the unsustainable long-term future of federal spending.

City Journal  contributing editor and longtime  Time  essayist  Lance Morrow  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the history of journalism. His new book,  The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism , is out February 28 and available for pre-order now.

Manhattan Institute policy analyst  Zach Goldberg  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the growing prominence of college-educated whites in the Democratic Party, how this group increasingly sets the party's agenda, and the implications of the changing Democratic coalition for the GOP.

Manhattan Institute graduate fellow  Daniel Di Martino  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the wave of migration to New York City, the roots of the federal border crisis, and the policies needed to fix the U.S. immigration system.

Rafael Mangual  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis and the broader criminal-justice landscape.

Lee Zeldin , the former congressman and 2022 Republican nominee for governor of New York, joins  Reihan Salam to discuss the lessons of his campaign and the political future of the Empire State. 

Critic  Adam Kirsch  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss his new book,  The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us , out now.

Journalist  John Hirschauer  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the closure of Pennsylvania state-run institutions for the developmentally and intellectually disabled, the historical roots of deinstitutionalization, and New York City's changing approach to the seriously mentally ill.

Doctor and economist  Joel M. Zinberg  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss the "tripledemic" of Covid, flu and RSV, the relationship of public health and epidemiology to real-world evidence, and the Covid situation in China.

Former NYPD commissioner  Raymond Kelly  discusses the state of crime policy in New York with CBS law-enforcement analyst  James A. Gagliano .

TechFreedom's Internet policy counsel and director of appellate litigation Corbin K. Barthold joins Theodore Kupfer to discuss digital authoritarianism in China, the possibility of decentralized social control in the West, and the new era of Twitter.

Author  Troy Senik  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss his new book,  A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland .

MI senior fellow and CJ contributing editor  Nicole Gelinas  joins  Brian Anderson to discuss New York's promotion of vice, the downsides of gambling and legal marijuana as an economic-development strategy, and the results of the 2022 midterm elections in the Empire State.

Renowned urban economist  Edward Glaeser  joins MI senior fellow and  City Journal  contributing editor  James B. Meigs to discuss the American housing crisis and how—or whether—it can be fixed.

Author and investor  Michael Gibson  joins  Brian Anderson  to discuss the work of the 1517 Fund and the Thiel Fellowship, why real technological progress has stalled and how elite universities contribute to that stagnation, and what some promising new educational models and institutions look like. His book,  Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University , will...

Washington Free Beacon reporter  Joseph Simonson  joins  Theodore Kupfer to discuss the 2022 midterms, including races in Ohio, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and more.

Manhattan Institute scholars  Steven Malanga  and  Charles Fain Lehman  join  Brian Anderson  to discuss the persistent black market for marijuana, the possibility of renewed drug enforcement against illegal pot, and the changing nature of the drug.

Criminologists  Barry Latzer  and  John Paul Wright  join  Rafael A. Mangual to discuss the continuing need to punish serious crimes.