City Journal
City Journal is a public policy magazine and website, published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, that covers a range of topics on urban affairs, such as policing, education, housing, and other issues.[2]: 349 The magazine also publishes articles on arts and culture, urban architecture, family culture, and other topics.[3][4] The magazine began publishing in 1990.[1][5]
Not to be confused with City (journal).Editor
Publication[edit]
The magazine is published by the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research[1][11] a national free-market think tank based in New York City. It was edited by Richard Vigilante and then Fred Siegel in the early 1990s. Myron Magnet, its editor from 1994 to 2006, is now editor-at-large. City Journal's current editor is Brian C. Anderson, who was appointed in late 2006 after serving as senior editor for 10 years.[11] The journal's contributors include experts such as Senior Fellow Heather Mac Donald, Edward Glaeser, Steven Malanga, Nicole Gelinas, Kay Hymowitz, John Tierney, and Joel Kotkin. Although City Journal is based in New York City, its scope is national and often international, through the contributions of writers including Theodore Dalrymple from Britain, Claire Berlinski and Guy Sorman from France, and Bruce Bawer in Norway.
Reception[edit]
Much of the reception of City Journal over the years has been divided along political lines.
Conservative commentator Jay Nordlinger, writing in National Review, called City Journal "a beacon of civilization".[5] In 2016, City Journal ranked second in The Global Grid's "Top 20 Urban Planning Websites",[13] and again made the list in 2017, ranked fourth.[14]
Alice O'Connor, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written that City Journal is "hardly a model of ideological moderation", and that its contributors are "enmeshed in 1960s- and 1970s-era urbanology".[2]: 349 She has criticized multiple writers for City Journal for reviving a "relentlessly negative image of black cultural pathology to call for tougher measures to crack down on out-of-wedlock births", following articles praising Daniel P. Moynihan's The Negro Family: The Case For National Action.[2]: 349 Conservative author Sol Stern, a major contributor for the magazine since its inception,[2]: 349 published a piece in liberal journal Democracy in 2020, accusing City Journal of removing contributors' editorial independence, and criticized the association of magazine trustee Rebekah Mercer with the alt-right outlet Breitbart.[16]