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Incisive commentary on urban policy, politics, and culture. Published by @ManhattanInst and edited by @BrianACity.
New York, NY
Joined December 2008
As the Golden Globes host, @rickygervais rightly debunked the loudest, most self-inflated hypocrites around. via @KayHymowitz
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San Francisco is the nation’s leader in property crime. Burglary, larceny, shoplifting, and vandalism are included under this ugly umbrella. In 2017 over 30,000 reports of car break-ins were filed, and the current average is 51 per day.
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California now leads the country in illiteracy. In fact, 23.1 percent of Californians over age 15 cannot read this sentence. via @ldsand.
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The Senate report on Hunter Biden is a reminder that the U.S. is not immune to corruption and abuse of power by the families of elites. via @HRaleighspeaks.
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San Francisco is placing homeless people in luxury hotels by designating them as emergency front-line workers. If neighborhood residents were more aware, they might object. But the city has evoked emergency-disaster law to keep the information private.
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Walmart's critical race theory training program denounces the United States as a “white supremacy system” and teaches white, hourly wage employees that they are guilty of “white supremacy thinking” and “internalized racial superiority.” via @realchrisrufo.
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Once in a while, a book or movie comes along that jolts American society and sparks a demand for social reform. What Is a Woman? by @MattWalshBlog @realDailyWire may be such a work, writes @LeorSapir
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The city of Los Angeles pays LAHSA nearly $300 million a year to administer homelessness services on its behalf, yet the agency is unwilling to provide basic information about its activities. via @SoledadUrsua.
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Canada's Bill 36 would allow for the imposition of fines up to $200,000, property seizure, and jail-time for physicians who give “misleading information to patients or the public.” via @Ravarora1.
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Unjust Deserts: Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets. via @cjstevem
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Stanford now has more employees than students, as well as more than six times as many administrators as faculty. via Graham Hillard.
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Black and Hispanic youth report higher rates of anti-Semitic views than among white youth on the alt-Right. via @HannahElka.
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Newly released emails make more plausible the contention that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins presided over the suppression of the lab-leak theory for political reasons. via Nicholas Wade
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Why Can’t Big-City Democrats Reform the Police? Accusations of police brutality have persisted in our bluest cities for decades. via @cjstevem
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The CDC and other public-health entities have updated their mask guidance yet again. Did the medical research on the effectiveness of masks change—or just the guidance on wearing them? via Jeffrey H. Anderson.
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It is virtually impossible to generate the amount of wind and solar power necessary to replace the world’s oil and gas consumption. @MarkPMills and @JamesBMeigs join @JohnStossel in debunking the #GreenNewDeal’s “magical thinking.”
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"One private school parent, born in a Communist nation, tells me: 'I came to this country escaping the very same fear of retaliation that now my own child feels,'" writes @bariweiss.
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Since becoming president just over a year ago, Argentina President Javier Milei has helped the country achieve lower inflation, a budget surplus, and a growing economy. And it’s all thanks to his free-market approach, writes @Pat_Horan92.
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Instead of a national model, Gavin Newsom’s California is a national warning of what happens when the progressive education establishment captures a state. via Michael Lucci.
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The FDA got excited about, then abandoned, authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine for young kids. The events further undermine the agency’s credibility, writes @VPrasadMDMPH.
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The troubling element of the Ontario court's ruling in the @jordanbpeterson case is how “rules” intended to advance professional standards are being used to curtail the free-speech rights of Ontario psychologists. via @Ravarora1.
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More than 85 percent of the increase in murders in big cities last year occurred in black and Hispanic neighborhoods, where homicide rates were already higher than in white neighborhoods. via @Ravarora1.
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Texas state officials appear willing to use every tool at their disposal to secure the 2024 election. via @cjblain10.
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San Francisco’s plan to put homeless people in hotels and motels is not going well. Rooms are rented at close to $200 per night, totaling $6,000 a month—nearly double the cost of a private one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco. via @EricaJSandberg.
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Once a court swallows gender ideology, judges will believe that the only thing left for a loving parent to do, after an adolescent announces a trans identity, is shuttle him to the doctors who will alter his body. via @AbigailShrier.
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A federal judge ordered that two of every five new @FDNY firefighters be black and one of every five be Hispanic.
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Accommodating Dysfunction: San Francisco’s plan to put homeless people in hotels and motels is not going well. via @EricaJSandberg
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In this short web essay from 2018, @VDHanson warned about many of the policies and conditions that would lead to the current wildfire disaster in California.
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At great risk, Hong Kong’s people have sounded alarms about the methods and ambitions of China’s ruling Communist Party. Americans need to understand why, in this twenty-first-century contest of values, Hong Kong’s fight is our fight, too. via @CRosett.
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Listening to Gavin Newsom, or following California media, one would have no idea how badly his state’s economy has performed during the pandemic. via @joelkotkin.
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“Climatology is becoming an increasingly dubious science, serving a political project. The policy cart is leading the scientific horse,” says @curryja.
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Obama promised that the Affordable Care Act would cut annual premiums by $2,500 and reduce spending, but national health-expenditure data show that spending rose from $2.60 trillion in 2010 to $4.1 trillion in 2020. via Joel Zinberg.
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Despite experiencing a higher poverty rate than blacks, whites, and Hispanics, Asians in New York City had consistently low arrest rates for violent crime. via Barry Latzer.
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Once in a while, a book or movie comes along that jolts American society and sparks a demand for social reform. "What Is a Woman?" by @MattWalshBlog and @realDailyWire may be such a work. via @LeorSapir.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “These terms—Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism—are used as weapons of character assassination to make a public discussion on certain subjects impossible.” via @Ravarora1.
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Chicago’s crime explosion has many causes, but an important one is dreadful political leadership. via @joldmcginn.
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Publishing flawed science to raise irrational fear, making false statements about the efficacy of treatments, and extrapolating data from one vaccine to another all constitute bad scientific practice, writes @VPrasadMDMPH.
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Tomorrow, Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton will introduce legislation to ban critical race theory trainings in the United States military. via @realchrisrufo.
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If the FDA moves forward on authorizing a fourth dose of the Covid shot, “it will cement a dangerous precedent,” argues @VPrasadMDMPH.
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.@GlennLoury: "You have two alternatives. You can live with disparities, or you can live in totalitarianism."
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Parental inattention and irresponsibility account for a large percentage of urban youth victimization as well as of youth crime commission. via @HMDatMI.
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New data suggest the Covid vaccine is much less effective at blocking infection in kids aged five to 11. Why, asks @VPrasadMDMPH, did authorities flirt with approving an even lower dose in those aged six months to four years?
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The city of Los Angeles pays LAHSA nearly $300 million a year to administer homelessness services on its behalf, yet the agency is unwilling to provide basic information about its activities. via @SoledadUrsua.
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A straight line connects critical race theory to modern progressivism to the riots in the streets, writes @realchrisrufo.
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Under Biden, authorities have detained and released into the U.S. about 2,200 migrants a day on average—four times as many as the approximately 550 per day apprehended and released during the eight fiscal years preceding Biden. via Jeffrey H. Anderson.
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Once in a while, a book or movie comes along that jolts American society and sparks a demand for social reform. "What Is a Woman?" by @MattWalshBlog and @realDailyWire may be such a work via @LeorSapir.
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Making America California: The Biden administration seems determined to run the country on the ruinous model of the Golden State. via @joelkotkin
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Policymakers should acknowledge the truth, write @vkoganpolisci and @VPrasadMDMPH: indefinitely avoiding infection with Omicron or the next SARS-CoV-2 variant is not possible.
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“The federal government is spending the FDA’s credibility like monopoly money at precisely the time we need faith in vaccine regulators,” writes @VPrasadMDMPH.
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The modern intellectual’s difficulty with faith is an effect created by the overwhelming dominance of the Enlightenment Narrative—a narrative that insists that Christianity can’t thrive in the modern world as we know it. via @andrewklavan.
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Ricky Gervais Read America: As the Golden Globes host, he rightly debunked the loudest, most self-inflated hypocrites around. via @KayHymowitz cc: @rickygervais
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Congress has encroached on presidential power. Today’s Congress is quick to label efforts to maintain executive-branch confidentiality as “obstruction of Congress” and to hold cabinet secretaries in contempt, as if the executive branch were not co-equal.
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An emergency-room doctor reports that a low blood oxygen level could be an early symptom of #COVIDー19. The Apple Watch actually contains hardware to measure blood-oxygen level, but under current FDA regulation, the function is disabled. via @JamesRCopland.
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After throwing her home congressional district and her previously stated beliefs under the bus, Senator Gillibrand has now come after due process and the rule of law.
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It’s difficult now to ignore the role that Obama has played in our growing racial divisions.
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"Mask-wearers breathe in greater amounts of air that should have been expelled from their bodies and released out into the open," writes Jeffrey H. Anderson.
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University administrators are still overly concerned with keeping down Covid cases. Whatever the motivation, it is not worth the toll these measures take on students’ lives, write @VPrasadMDMPH and @LeslieBienen.
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The Community Development Block Grant hands out money for projects that have little to do with its poverty-combating mission.
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Once in a while, a book or movie comes along that jolts American society and sparks a demand for social reform. "What Is a Woman?" by @MattWalshBlog and @realDailyWire may be such a work. via @LeorSapir.
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We must promote the true story of America—a story that is honest about injustices in American history, but that places them in the context of our nation’s high ideals and the progress we have made toward realizing them. via @realchrisrufo.
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New data suggest the Covid vaccine is much less effective at blocking infection in kids aged five to 11. Why, asks @VPrasadMDMPH, did authorities flirt with approving an even lower dose in those aged six months to four years?
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New data suggest the Covid vaccine is much less effective at blocking infection in kids aged five to 11. Why, asks @VPrasadMDMPH, did authorities flirt with approving an even lower dose in those aged six months to four years?
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Educational advisers in California have argued that schools should start transforming children into “activist intellectuals,” beginning in first grade. via @realchrisrufo.
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Once in a while, a book or movie comes along that jolts American society and sparks a demand for social reform. "What Is a Woman?" by @MattWalshBlog and @realDailyWire may be such a work. via @LeorSapir.
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.@realchrisrufo: "How did DeSantis outperform the rest of the GOP? The answer, I believe, is that he has created a new model for 'culture war as public policy,' which combines popular media combat with competent, effective governance."
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John Oliver dedicated a recent episode of @LastWeekTonight to the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors. It was little more than a misinformed genuflection to radical activists, writes @LeorSapir.
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Donald Trump’s stunning victory represents a tectonic shift in American politics.
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At the Golden Globes, @rickygervais did something comics have done through the ages: reminded us that the glamorous emperors might be naked, and the loudest singers in church the most corrupt. via @KayHymowitz.
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Rap is anti-music—devoid of harmony, beauty, structure, transcendence, or thought, writes @MyronMagnet.
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Critical race theory—the academic discourse centered on the concepts of “whiteness,” “white fragility,” and “white privilege”—is spreading rapidly through the federal government. via @realchrisrufo.
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John Oliver dedicated a recent episode of @LastWeekTonight to the controversy over “gender-affirming care” for minors. It was little more than a misinformed genuflection to radical activists, writes @LeorSapir.
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In 2015, Oregon passed a law permitting minors 15 and older to obtain puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries—all without parental consent. via @AbigailShrier.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali: “These terms—Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism—are used as weapons of character assassination to make a public discussion on certain subjects impossible.” via @Ravarora1.
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Bork’s defeat was a watershed event in judicial politics, and reverberates still—it prevented a conservative realignment of the Court and forever transformed the judicial-confirmation process into an ideological gauntlet.
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The pandemic has eased, but not the compulsion of many Americans to cover their faces, despite evidence of the ineffectiveness of mask mandates. via @JohnTierneyNYC.
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Terry McAuliffe ran a campaign based on Virginians’ greatest fears. Glenn Youngkin ran on their hopes for pragmatic governance rather than permanent cultural revolution and hardline Covid-19 policies. via @ZaidJilani.
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Democrats must stop allowing transgender activists to dictate their policies and start following principles of evidence-based medicine, writes @LeorSapir.
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Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky "doesn’t deserve this, except in the sense that he should have known better: this is, after all, what happens when revolutions eat their own," writes @corbinkbarthold.
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For the last three decades, San Francisco has conducted a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior—in the name of compassion toward the homeless. The results have been the opposite. via @HMDatMI.
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Mayor de Blasio is fighting to reduce Asian representation in New York City’s elite schools. via @dennisjsaffran
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"If Donald Trump’s boorishness crashes like a bull through the crystal madhouse of their leftism—well, good. It’s about time." via @andrewklavan
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Anarchists in Portland said that they destroyed bike-share program bikes to make the point that “our city is NOT a corporate amusement park.”
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“Misleading and incorrect claims about gender identity are being used to justify invasive, permanent medical procedures on minors and adults and to eliminate sex-based distinctions in law,” write @SwipeWright and @NeuroSGS.
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Publishing flawed science to raise irrational fear, making false statements about the efficacy of treatments, and extrapolating data from one vaccine to another all constitute bad scientific practice, writes @VPrasadMDMPH.
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We should ask ourselves whether the critical posture that so many have taken—in New York, in particular—toward police in recent years reflects an appreciation of the often-grim reality of being a cop.
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“Misleading and incorrect claims about gender identity are being used to justify invasive, permanent medical procedures on minors and adults and to eliminate sex-based distinctions in law,” write @SwipeWright and @NeuroSGS.
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"Gender identity, with its vision of autonomous children in touch with their innermost authentic desires, negates all we know about adolescence, just as it does early childhood," writes @KayHymowitz.
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.@GlennLoury: "You have two alternatives. You can live with disparities, or you can live in totalitarianism."
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No Obama official ever acknowledged the administration’s policy generated a flood of lawsuits from accused students.
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Trump’s executive order to root out critical race theory “trainings” from federal agencies is an overdue and salutary step, but a more formidable task lies ahead: rooting out identity-politics propaganda from America’s public schools. via @maxeden99.
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If the FDA moves forward on authorizing a fourth dose of the Covid shot, “it will cement a dangerous precedent,” argues @VPrasadMDMPH.
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Historian George Nash argues that Trump has shattered the fusionist consensus within conservatism. On every front, Nash claims, Trump has challenged or subverted the conservative orthodoxy. via @xchrisgonz.
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📹 San Francisco is falling apart. @realchrisrufo has a new short documentary on what went wrong—and how one of the world’s most prosperous cities became a haven for public disorder.
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.@GlennLoury: "To say that the American Dream doesn’t apply to black Americans is to tell a lie to our children about their country—a crippling lie which, when taken as gospel, robs our people of agency and a sense of control over our fate."
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Malcom Kyeyune: "It’s probably meaningful that you rarely find an example of, say, a woke electrician or plumber or truck driver. this is not an ideology that infects people at random. It’s clearly a class phenomenon."
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Under the leadership of Lina Khan, the FTC is defying, sidestepping, and subverting all three branches of government. via @corbinkbarthold.
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