City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
City Journal is America's premier source of insightful policy analysis, sophisticated cultural commentary, and bold investigations that legacy journalists are too timid to touch. From incisive interviews to lively panel discussions, our podcasts extend CJ's trademark rigor and wit beyond the written page to the dynamic world of streaming audio. Listen today.
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Jan 11, 2024 • 24min
Illiberal Ivy League
Ilya Shapiro joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss Harvard president Claudine Gay's resignation, the rise of anti-Semitism on college campuses, and the state of free speech in higher education.

Jan 3, 2024 • 16min
A New Golden Age
Corbin K. Barthold joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss barriers to aerospace innovation and America's need to compete in the current space race.

Dec 27, 2023 • 1h 7min
Debating Affirmative Action
Glenn C. Loury and Randall L. Kennedy discuss affirmative action and the state of race and education in America. Renu Mukherjee moderates their conversation.

Dec 20, 2023 • 15min
The New Racial Preferences
Renu Mukherjee joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the push to eliminate merit-based admissions at selective high schools.

Dec 14, 2023 • 25min
We Had to Do Something
Joe Nocera joins John Tierney to discuss the government's disastrous response to the Covid pandemic.

Dec 6, 2023 • 18min
Cities and Prosperity
Chelsea Follett joins Jordan McGillis to discuss cities as centers of intellectual and economic progress.

Nov 29, 2023 • 23min
Resisting Gender Ideology
Miriam Grossman, child psychiatrist and author, discusses her book Lost in Trans Nation and explores topics such as the impact of gender ideology in schools, the significance of John Money's theories, the case of David Reimer, the Castro Consensus in pediatric medicine, and advice for parents dealing with a child's gender distress.

Nov 22, 2023 • 27min
Innovation Inheritance
James Pethokoukis joins Jordan McGillis to discuss technology's potential to transform our economy, the need to improve our education system, and the future of conservatism.

Nov 15, 2023 • 18min
Death and Despair
Michael Bonner joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the rise of euthanasia in Canada, the prevalence of loneliness in the West, and the meaning of civilization.

Nov 9, 2023 • 18min
New York's Migrant Crisis
John Ketcham joins Brian Anderson to discuss the city's illegal-immigrant surge and the statutory basis of its right-to-shelter mandate.


