Claire Berlinski is a City Journal contributing editor, a freelance investigative journalist, travel writer, biographer, and novelist who lives in Istanbul. She is the author of Menace in Europe: Why ...

Harry Stein, a City Journal contributing editor, is the author of Tiny Tim (1976), Ethics and Other Liabilities: Trying to Live Right in an Amoral World (1983), Hoopla (1986), The Magic Bullet (1995), ...

John D. Sailer is the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His research and investigations cover issues of academic freedom, free speech, and ideological ...

Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and a member of the Council on Criminal Justice. His first book, Criminal (In)Justice, was ...

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Paul Beston is managing editor of City Journal and author of The Boxing Kings.

Social scientists have documented widespread societal harms in states with legal online gambling, alongside rising rates of ...

Harvard was founded by Anglo-Protestants in 1636 to train Christian ministers. Its original motto was Veritas Christo et ...

Even as the Trump administration scrutinizes Harvard University for its racial preferences and cuts another $450 million in ...

Jonathan Clarke is a contributing editor of City Journal, a lawyer, and a critic and essayist. He divides his time between Brooklyn and Vero Beach, Florida. You can find him at ...

Stephanie Hessler is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She writes frequently on constitutional law, national security law, counter terrorism law, and judicial nominations. Her work has ...

The federal endowment tax rewards dependence and punishes self-reliance.