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City Journal Audio — 433 episodes
Flock Safety’s Chief Strategy Officer on ALPR Surveillance, Privacy Concerns, and Public Safety
Is ShotSpotter Racist? An Honest Conversation with SoundThinking CEO Ralph Clark
On Gender Medicine: The Utah Gender Report with Leor Sapir
Judith Miller: An Extraordinary Career
The Left’s Institutional Capture
A Day in the Life of a Crime Reporter (with the New York Post’s Joe Marino)
Who We Are: On Therapy (with Abigail Shrier)
Forming Souls in an AI Future
Youth Residential Treatment in America
When Race Trumps Merit, with Heather Mac Donald
Reforming Child Welfare: The Hidden Crisis No One Talks About
Pre-Industrial Life Was Worse
Supreme Court Opinion Roundup (with Ilya Shapiro)
Reforming Therapy: Addressing Bias and Building Trust
Affordability Roundtable (Part 2): The Hidden Costs of College and Food Delivery: How Regulations Drive Up Prices
Mamdani’s First Three Months
City Journal Affordability Roundtable (Part 1)
Reclaiming Liberty & Equality: What the Founders Got Right—and What We Forgot
Who We Are: City Journal
Who We Are: Economics
Who We Are: Homelessness Crisis
A Novel of New York City’s Migrant Crisis
Who We Are: On Western Values
Who We Are: Gender Ideology
The Rich Are Good for Democracy
Who We Are: On Civil Terrorism
Who We Are: Psychology, Behavior, and Society
Who We Are: Race and Meritocracy
Who We Are: The Conservative Legal Movement
Who We Are: Crime and Public Safety
The City Journal Podcast: A Year in Review
City Journal Podcast Highlights
Enduring Lessons of Christmas
Mamdani’s Extreme Ideas
Mamdani vs. Trump: Who Holds the Cards in New York City?
How Did Zohran Mamdani Win?
Inside the DSA’s Growing Influence
Socialism and Social Cohesion in New York City
City Journal Reacts to Election Night
City Journal’s New College Rankings
Mayoral Debate Highlights: Who Stood Out?
What Drives Protest Culture?
Therapeutic Culture Is a Luxury Belief: Why Young People Are Struggling
The West’s Civilizational Inheritance
Bari Weiss, Media Disruptor
American Universities, Two Years After October 7
Shutdown Politics, Filibuster Fights, and the “Abundance Bros”
Mayor Adams Drops Out: What Comes Next?
Masculinity Under Fire: Reclaiming Strength and Responsibility in America
The Jimmy Kimmel Suspension: Cancel Culture and Free Speech
Public Housing’s Progressive History
Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin and the Radicalization of Young Men
Political Violence in America: A New Era?
Tragedies Old and New
A Fatal Ride: Violence on Public Transit
Navigating New York City’s Mayoral Election
YIMBY Success in Texas
Trump’s Flag-Burning Crackdown: New Executive Order vs. First Amendment
Will Trump Deploy the National Guard to Other Cities?
Trump Says the Smithsonian Is Too Negative. Is He Right?
From Capital Streets to City Shelters: Who’s in Charge?
Capital Offense: Can the Feds Fix D.C.’s Crime Crisis?
New York Confronts Ideological Violence
Douglas Murray on Political Violence, Immigration, and His Win in a Defamation Case
Will the Gender Divide in Politics Close?
Manhattan Shooting: What Will it Mean for Public Safety?
Addressing Homelessness: Trump’s New Executive Order
Columbia’s Deal With Trump: Will Other Universities Follow Suit?
The Future of Democratic Socialism
Will NPR Lose Funding?
Euthanasia in New York?
Trump, Harvard, and Campus Conservatives
Democratic Socialism’s Rise (feat. Reihan Salam)
Elon’s America: Can the Billionaire Reboot the Right?
“Alligator Alcatraz”: Trump’s Bold Border Plan
SCOTUS Decisions: Big Wins, Legal Fights, and Who Belongs on Mount Rushmore
NYC Mayoral Primary: What the Data and Debates Reveal
Manhattan Institute Poll: Cuomo Leads Mamdani in Mayor’s Race
“No Kings” Protests: Why More Boomers Than Zoomers?
Pot’s Mental-Health Dangers
Los Angeles Riots: Another Summer of Chaos
Anti-ICE Riots Are Completely Unjustified
Trump Travel Ban: What Comes Next
Colorado Fire Attack: Radicalism on the Rise?
Trump’s Visa Moves
Jewish Museum Murder: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Americanism
Automation on the Docks
Palm Springs Bombing: a Return to Terror?
Newsom’s Homelessness Ordinance: All Talk, No Action
U.S.-China Tariff Agreement: Will It Stick?
Presidents and CEOs
University Campus Radicalism: When Will It End?
Subway Homeless Stalls: Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 Vision (ft. Rob Henderson)
Religious Charter Schools: How Will Supreme Court Rule?
Wisconsin Judge Arrest: Fair or Foolish?
Deporting Immigrant Criminals: Why Eric Adams’s Hands Are Tied (ft. Heather Mac Donald)
New York’s Composting Delusion
Abrego Garcia Case: What’s Trump’s Next Move?
Harvard vs. Trump: Who Wins?
The Trade War Starts in 3…2…1
Houston Schools’ Turnaround
Green Energy Fallacies
Protest, or Intimidation?
Rationalizing Religion
Cost-Benefit Economics
Re-Grounding Criminology in Reality
The Legal Pot Debacle
The State of American Homeownership
“The Walmart of Heroin”
The AI Arms Race
The Fight Against Gender Medicine
Trump and Public Safety
A History of Movement in New York City
Danger in the Subways
The U.S. Economy Is Strong, but Americans Remain Skeptical
Pete Buttigieg’s Rocky Legacy
Making Architecture Classical Again
Investing in Abundance
Why Prison Works
Bubbles and Innovation
Voting on the Border
Trump’s Big Win
Alberta’s Addiction Solutions
Analyzing China Exposure Risk
America’s Societal Revolutions
A Supreme Court Preview
Starbucks and the Administrative State
AI for Government
Wilhelm Reich, Instigator of the Sexual Revolution
Reigniting Economic Growth
Election Economics
Unfit for Work
Christians in the Moral Minority
The Present and Future of AI Policy
Pushing Back on DEI
Bankrolling Disorder
Gender Medicine and Scientific Evidence
Protecting Presidents
Luxury Beliefs and the Two-Parent Privilege
After the Debate Debacle
Telling the Truth About America
Countering Progressive Extremism
Policing and the Social Order
Unimaginable—and Inevitable
Adverse Family Culture
Sidelining Science
Parsing the Birth Dearth
Prices and Policy
San Francisco Conservatives
Parenting Under the Influence
Cultivating Civility
Chaos Coordinators
Gondola Dodgers
The Will to Liberty
Harvard’s Unscientific Consensus
Abundance or Extinction?
The Future of Mobility
Chaos and Order
Dogma of Danger
Psychoanalysis’s Past—and Future
Men of Conviction
Diet and Disease
Wing Seat
Illiberal Ivy League
A New Golden Age
Debating Affirmative Action
The New Racial Preferences
We Had to Do Something
Cities and Prosperity
Resisting Gender Ideology
Innovation Inheritance
Death and Despair
New York's Migrant Crisis
A Hand Up
Unity of Necessity
Immoral Equivalence
Overdose Epidemic
Fleeing Retail
From Workplace to Residence
Pushing Back on Homeless Encampments
Digital Censorship
The Left’s Long March
Parental Choices and Challenges in the Keystone State
L.A.’s Jail Debate
Counting the Cost
America’s Failing Schools
Artificial Persuasion
Law and Democracy
The State School-Choice Movement
Evaluating the Court’s SFFA Ruling
Reclaiming Our Story
The Price of Money
Taxes and Digital Commerce
Union Pressure
Children and Transgenderism
Shelter Without Borders
Fassbinder: Life and Films
Newsom’s Prospects
New York’s Budget Fights
“Equity” Over Merit
Medicine Goes Woke
Chicago’s Future
Affirming the Binary
California Reparations
Banking Turmoil
Resisting Californication
Rescuing Rikers
Keeping the Lights On
The End of Journalism’s Golden Age
The New Democratic Coalition
Can New York City Solve Its Migrant Crisis?
Tyre Nichols and the State of Policing
Lee Zeldin on New York’s Future
The New Human Sacrifice
The Persistence of Deinstitutionalization
The Last Gasp of Pandemic Restrictions?
Lessons from New York’s Crime Decline
Does Information Still Want to Be Free?
Grover Cleveland Revisited
New York’s Gambling-and-Weed Economic Strategy
Can Policymakers Solve the Housing Crisis?
Can We Have Progress Again?
Previewing the Midterm Elections
Legal Weed: What Went Wrong?
The Utility of Incarceration
Woke Across the Pond
Protecting the Public
How the Government Created Racial Categories
Are Culture Wars a Policy Issue?
A Vision for Mental Health Reform
Sizing Up the Education Wars
Student Loans and Social Policy
Elite Insecurity
Repeating Old Mistakes
Is the Rent Too Damn High?
Washington’s Dizzying Two Weeks
What We Know about the Crime Spike
Metapolitics
Is an Energy Crisis Imminent?
Betsy DeVos on Education Freedom
Understanding SCOTUS’s New York Gun-Control Ruling
Zoning Out Growth
Explaining Western Success
A Turning Point for San Francisco?
A History of Homelessness
Policing in the Information Age
Recovering Statesmanship
Sizing Up America’s Prosecutors
Impediments to Gotham’s Quality of Life
Musk’s Twitter Takeover
A Microcosm of New York’s Public-Safety Woes
Pennsylvania’s Future
The Future of Education Reform in New York City
Making Sense of Markets
Puncturing Myths about the U.S. Welfare State
Will Miami Transform America—Or America Miami?
The Gender-Identity Debate
Filling a Vacuum
Can New York Turn the Page on Homelessness?
An Overlooked Boom
The Future of the Culture War
Saving Prosecution from the Prosecutors
Virtual Reality or Chinese Dark Enlightenment?
Securing the Subways
Chicago Teachers Against Teaching
Can Adams Fix de Blasio’s Mess?
The State of the Economy
Reinventing Equal Opportunity
How Progressives Became Anti-Anti-Critical Race Theory
A Shared American Inheritance
A Moderate Revolt in Buffalo
In Cities, Common Sense Is Common Ground
A Broken Child-Welfare System
The Death—and Life?—of Citizenship
Build Back Debtor
Stubborn Facts About Crime
Rikers in Crisis
How Can Cities Survive?
The Case for the “Poor Side of Town”
Twenty Years After 9/11
Crime in the U.S., Then and Now
The Crown Heights Riots, 30 Years Later
State of the States
Is the Future Californian?
Inflated Credentials
Still Panicking
Talking About Crime
The Aristocracy of Talent
Policing as a Profession: A Conversation with William Bratton
Making Sense of New York’s Mayoral Race
A History of Disasters
The Enduring Relevance of Thomas Sowell
The Beginning—and End—of the Pandemic
How New York Got Here—and Where It Goes Next
The Future of Catholic Schools
Bleeding Edge
Policing in New York: Past, Present, and Future
Bay Watch
High Stakes
Alternative Facts
Gotham at the Bleeding Edge
Solving the Homelessness Crisis
Creating a Crime Wave?
New York’s Budget Reckoning
Jails and Transit, Mayors and Governors
Crisis of the Two Constitutions
How “Openness” Defines Human Progress
Critical “Race” to the Bottom
Cuomo, de Blasio, and New York’s Future
Congress and the Balance of Power
Biden’s Retreat on Crime
City Journal at 30: A Reflection
On White Flight and “Whataboutism”
The Botched Vaccine Rollout
San Francisco’s Lockdown Burdens
Ringing in the New Year, and Farewell to 2020
Believe in People: A Conversation with Charles Koch and Brian Hooks
Rise of the Muni-Socialists
Victor Davis Hanson on the 2020 Election
New York’s Ongoing Covid Struggle
America’s Shrinking Police Forces
Invisible Hands: Mutual Aid in a Pandemic
Election Outcomes and Disputes
A New America?
An Insider's View of the Trump White House
Shelby and Eli Steele on Michael Brown, Race, and Amazon
The Crisis of Liberalism
Looking Back: A Conversation with George Kelling
Radical Indoctrination in the Federal Bureaucracy
The Covid-19 Recession, Revisited
Fearless Thinking in an Age of Conformity
Policing’s New Challenge, with NYPD Commissioner Shea
China’s Nuclear Push
California’s Neo-Feudal Future
Chicago’s Ransacking and Illinois’ Fiscal Blues
Trouble on the Upper West Side
Playing with Fire: The Unwinding of Public Safety
Catholic Schools, Charters, and Choice
Policing on the Brink: A Conversation with William Bratton
Nursing Homes: The Center of the Pandemic
A Summer of Violence?
Navigating the Pandemic Economy
“Woke” Schools
CHAZ to CHOP: Seattle’s Radical Experiment
How Our Social Nature Makes Everything Contagious
Race, Riots, and the Cops
Bedlam in New York
The Arbery Shooting: Looking for Answers
Farewell, San Francisco
Covid-19: Regulatory Obstacles to U.S. Recovery
Brooklyn’s Covid-19 Response, with Eric Adams
A Plan for Ending New York’s Shutdown
Cities and Pandemics: A Long History
Good Samaritans vs. Covid-19
Prospects for a Coronavirus Vaccine
Covid-19 in New York
Covid-19: The Impact on State Budgets
COVID-19 Shuts Down New York
The Coronavirus: A Doctor Weighs In
Fathers Behind Bars
How the Plastic Panic Hurts Us—and the Planet
Skid Row’s Addiction Epidemic
Why Classical Architecture Matters
The Digital Economy’s Voracious Energy Demand
Parenting in the City
How Risk Fuels a Healthy Economy
Why Ban Dollar Stores?
Rent Control: Unjust and Ineffective
Child Welfare in Crisis
Season’s Greetings and a Brief Holiday Update
Faith, Family, and Personal Sacrifice
The Great Society, Reconsidered
Bloomberg’s Complicated Legacy
Building Civil Society: A Conversation
A Model for Suburban Development?
One Trade School’s Path to Success
Music: The Rebel Art Form
Productivity and the “Intangible” Economy
Closing Rikers: Jails, Politics, and Public Safety in New York
Infrastructure Spending, Reconsidered
San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis
Who Killed Civil Society?
Pittsburgh’s Latest Comeback
The Entrenched vs. the Newcomers: 2019 James Q. Wilson Lecture
The Left’s Surging Urban Activism
Bernie’s Pro-Union Push
New York City Transit, with Speaker Corey Johnson
Why Budget Negotiations Succeed—and Why They Fail
America’s Outdated Power Grid
The U.S.–China Trade War Heats Up
The New Disorder: Urban Dysfunction Returns
The YIMBY Answer to America’s Housing Crunch
Summer Reading, with City Journal (2019)
“Woke” Politics Over Progress in New York Schools
Homelessness Strains New York’s Libraries
Theodore Dalrymple on Elite Medical Journals and the Criminal Underclass
Rent Control’s Resurgence in New York
Activists in the Boardroom
Mounting Disorder in San Francisco
The Loneliness Epidemic
Managing Risk in Unexpected Places
A Catholic Crisis in the Rust Belt
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution
Inside the Academic Destruction of a University
Congestion Pricing in New York, a New Mayor in Chicago
China’s Troubled Urban Future
Reefer’s Madness
“Blue Wave” Hits Local Prosecutors
The Civil Society Awards
Victor Davis Hanson on Trump
The Case for Nuclear Power
Charter Schools and Teachers’ Strikes
Public-Sector Unions After Janus
Barriers to Black Progress
From “College Town” to Big City
How Trump Is Reshaping Federal Courts
The “Green New Deal” and Trade with China
Bill de Blasio: Rhetoric and Reality
NYCHA: Public Housing in Crisis
Seattle’s Homeless Challenge
“The Diversity Delusion,” with Heather Mac Donald
Family Court Tragedy
Prescription Drugs and Price Controls
Holiday Season in New York
Keeping the Mentally Ill Out of Jail
The Once and Future Worker
Amazon Comes to Queens
Assessing the Gubernatorial Results
Is New York Going All-Blue?
The Unbearable Sameness of Cities
Antifa At Large in Portland
Race Relations, with Shelby Steele
The Next American City