Third Time’s a Charm? | City Journal
WEBAug 26, 2024 · Thirty-six years later, in 1987, the second wave of conservative critiques began, with Allan Bloom’s surprise bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom, then a 47-year-old professor of philosophy, had taught at several elite universities. Students, he reported, were addled by too much TV and rock music.
Warren Buffett’s Missed Opportunity | City Journal
WEBAug 22, 2024 · Warren Buffett’s Missed Opportunity. The mogul could have created a nonprofit to challenge the Gates Foundation’s dominance. In 2006, Warren Buffett pledged most of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He told Fortune that he had always planned to give the money away, but “I came to realize that there was a terrific ...
Building a New University on Firm Foundations | City Journal
WEBAug 29 2024 / Share. The weeks and months following the October 7 attacks on Israel revealed the crumbling foundations of America’s universities. Weak presidents, craven faculty, and cynical administrators across the country condoned calls for violence and illegal encampments as part of a larger assault on the West’s history, culture, and ...
A Response to Jordan Peterson on Higher Education Reform
WEBAug 28, 2024 · A Response to Jordan Peterson. The distinguished psychologist is wrong about the politics of the university. The Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson is perhaps the most famous academic dissident in the world, having made his reputation opposing the ideological corruption of the universities. And yet, when considering practical reforms, he …
Heterodox Journalism in the Ivy League | City Journal
WEBAug 9, 2024 · Heterodox and conservative journalism is undergoing a revival in the Ivy League. That the Ivy League, even with its progressive intellectual conformity, should periodically give rise to new conservative voices shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has engaged with young conservatives attending one of these schools.
Covid Politics ’24 - City Journal
WEBCovid Politics ’24. Joe Biden’s effort to use pandemic failures as a weapon against Donald Trump risks reminding voters of how much they dislike the president’s own policies. / From the Magazine / Politics and law. Summer 2024 / Share. Joe Biden’s struggle to resist mounting calls from fellow Democrats and media commentators to withdraw ...
A Passage to Doomsday - City Journal
WEBAug 23, 2024 · A Passage to Doomsday. “The Machine Stops,” a 1909 short story by E. M. Forster, uncannily imagines our technology-dependent world—and what might happen when the tech breaks down. In 1909, Edward Morgan Forster published a story, “The Machine Stops,” which now seems astonishingly prescient.
The Magazine - City Journal
WEBThe author’s final, unfinished novel fused intimations of American decline with an encroaching sense of his own mortality. Stephen Eide When Heroin Hit Jazz. Fascination with a deadly drug ravaged a generation of great American musicians.
The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour | City Journal
WEBOct 23, 2022 · Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an expression of LGBTQ pride. The intellectual debate has …
The Unjust Pursuit of Police Officer Sutton | City Journal
WEBJan 9, 2024 · David C. • 8 months ago. In December 2022, Washington, D.C., police officer Terence Sutton was convicted of second-degree murder for the October 2020 death of Karon Hylton-Brown. Sutton faces more than six decades behind bars when he is sentenced, though his sentencing has been delayed and is yet to be rescheduled.