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How the West Should Rearm
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The United States is boosting defense spending. So are its allies. At a recent Manhattan Institute breakfast, Christian Brose, president of the military-technology company Anduril Industries, discussed how...
Humphrey’s Executor Has Been Slaughtered
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This piece first appeared on our main website, city-journal.org.
The Supreme Court this week restored an old-fashioned constitutional idea: if a principal federal officer exercises executive power, the presiden...
Sorry, Honey, the Government Closed Your School
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We walked our daughter to preschool a few weeks ago and were turned away at the door. The New York City Department of Health had shut down the school while it investigate...
Shall the Right-Wingers Inherit the Earth?
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Among folks born a century ago, self-identified conservatives and liberals had similar numbers of kids. But that changed for the cohorts born between the midpoint of the 20th century through 1982, the g...
The High Cost of New York’s Rent Freeze
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In 1971, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck offered a famous critique of rent control: “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city...
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The Manhattan Institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.
Political scientist interested in public opinion, electoral systems, local politics, and teaching. Part-time at GW, the Manhattan Institute, and other institutions.
Associate Professor of Finance, NYUStern
Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Senior Editor of City Journal. Opinions here are my own.
Dad of 3, Manhattan Institute Fellow, Institute for Family Studies Research Fellow, NRO Contributing Editor, CenterClip Contributor. Guitar player and metalhead. Opinions my own.
John Sailer is a senior fellow and director of higher education policy at the Manhattan Institute.
Adam Lehodey is an investigative reporter covering New York politics, economics and cultural issues. Beyond those topics, he publishes diverse essays on philosophy, urbanism and travel on his site: adamlehodey.com
Writer at the Manhattan Institute.
Shawn Regan is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he writes on economic, energy, and environmental issues.
Senior Fellow & Director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute
Husband, dad, and longtime think tank guy. Thinking, writing, and talking mostly (but not exclusively) about crime, policing, and criminal justice. Lawyer by training. Right-of-center. Brooklyn boy turned suburbanite.
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