The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (renamed in 1981 from the International Center for Economic Policy Studies) is a
conservative
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American
think tank
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focused on
domestic policy
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and
urban affairs, established in
Manhattan
Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
in 1978 by
Antony Fisher
Sir Antony George Anson Fisher (28 June 1915 – 8 July 1988), nicknamed AGAF, was a British businessman and think tank founder. He participated in the formation of various libertarian organisations during the second half of the twentieth cen ...
and
William J. Casey
William Joseph Casey (March 13, 1913 – May 6, 1987) was the Director of Central Intelligence from 1981 to 1987. In this capacity he oversaw the entire United States Intelligence Community and personally directed the Central Intelligence Agency ...
.
[R. Emmett Tyrrell, ''After the Hangover: The Conservatives' Road to Recovery'' (2010), p. 187.][Jason Stahl, ''Right Moves: The Conservative Think Tank in American Political Culture Since 1945'' (2016), p. 112.] The institute has produced books, articles, interviews, speeches,
op-ed
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s, and the quarterly publication ''
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. The magazine ...
''.
History
Foundational years (1978–1980)
The International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS) was founded by Antony Fisher and William J. Casey in 1978.
ICEPS changed its name to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in 1981. The institute's first president was
Jeffrey Bell
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, who was succeeded in 1980 by
William H. Hammett, who served until 1995. In 1980, the institute (then ICEPS) began publishing its ''Manhattan Report on Economic Policy'', a monthly periodical featuring briefs by leading market economists and analysts. David Asman was the first editor of the reports and continued the post until 1982.
Reagan-era activity (1981–1989)
During the early 1980s, the institute published several books on
supply-side economics
Supply-side economics is a macroeconomic theory that postulates economic growth can be most effectively fostered by lowering taxes, decreasing regulation, and allowing free trade. According to supply-side economics, consumers will benefit fr ...
and the
privatization
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of services. In 1981, Institute program director
George Gilder
George Franklin Gilder (; born November 29, 1939) is an American investor, author, economist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. His 1981 book, '' Wealth and Poverty'', advanced a case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the ...
published ''
Wealth and Poverty
''Wealth and Poverty'' is a best-selling 1981 non-fiction book by investor and author George Gilder. A second edition was published in 2012.
Overview
After completing ''Visible Man'' in the late 1970s Gilder began writing "The Pursuit of Poverty. ...
'', a book that some reviewers called the "bible" of the Reagan administration; the book focused on questioning the character of the poor, saying that "the current poor, white even more than black, are refusing to work hard."
[Robert Asen, ''Visions of Poverty: Welfare Policy and Political Imagination'' (2012), p. 76.] A ''
New York Times
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'' reviewer called it "A Guide to Capitalism", arguing that it offered "a creed for capitalism worthy of intelligent people", but noted that it was alternately astonishing and boring, "persuasive and sometimes highly questionable."
The book was a ''
New York Times
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'' bestseller and eventually sold over a million copies.
Other books on supply-side economics published during this era include ''The Economy in Mind'' (1982), by Warren Brookes, and ''The Supply-Side Solution'' (1983), edited by
Timothy Roth and Bruce Bartlett. The institute sponsored a documentary film, "Good Intentions", in 1983 based on the book, ''The State Against Blacks'' by
Walter E. Williams
Walter Edward Williams (March 31, 1936December 1, 2020) was an American economist, commentator, and academic. Williams was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University, as well as a syndicated columnist an ...
. The film debuted on New York area public TV station
WNET
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on June 27, and presented Williams's thesis that government policies have done more to impede than to encourage black economic progress.
In 1982, the institute paid
Charles Murray Charles Murray may refer to:
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*Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), Scotti ...
to write ''
Losing Ground'', published in 1984.
The ''City Journal'' (1990–2000)
In 1990, the institute founded its quarterly magazine, ''
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. The magazine ...
''. The magazine was edited by Peter Salins and then Fred Siegel in the early 1990s. ''
Fortune
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'' editor Myron Magnet was hired by the institute as editor of the magazine in 1994, where he served until 2007. , the magazine is edited by Brian C. Anderson. Lawrence J. Mone was named president of the institute in 1995, taking over from William H. Hammett. He joined the institute in 1982, serving as a public policy specialist, program director and vice president before being named the institute's fourth president.
The institute established the Center for Education Innovation (CEI) in 1989, which focused on promoting
charter school
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s. The CEI helped create a number of small, alternative public schools in New York and advised New York Governor
George Pataki
George Elmer Pataki (; born June 24, 1945) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 53rd governor of New York from 1995 to 2006. An attorney by profession, Pataki was elected mayor of his hometown of Peekskill, New York, and went on ...
in crafting the state's charter school law in 1998, which authorized the creation of autonomous public schools. The institute thereafter continued to work with school officials to promote the idea of school choice nationwide.
Senior fellow Peter W. Huber published his first book, ''Liability: The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences'', in 1990. The book focused on
tort law
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since the 1960s, arguing that a dramatic increase in liability lawsuits had led to numerous negative outcomes. Later on,
Walter Olson
Walter K. Olson (born 1954) is an author and blogger who writes mostly about legal subjects, including tort reform. Olson is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. Formerly, Olson was associated with t ...
's work at the institute included ''The Litigation Explosion'', in 1992.
The institute had ties with the administration of New York City Mayor
Rudy Giuliani
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani (, ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 198 ...
, who had become a regular at Institute luncheons and lectures after his failed mayoral campaign in 1989. The Spring 1992 Issue of ''City Journal'' was devoted to "The Quality of Urban Life", and featured articles on crime, education, housing, and public spaces. The issue caught Giuliani's eye as he prepared to run for mayor again in 1993. The campaign contacted ''City Journal'' editor Fred Siegel to develop tutorial sessions for the candidate. Among the policies adopted by his administration was the "broken-windows" theory of policing, which had already begun to be adopted on some levels by leadership in the NYPD.
During the 2000 election, candidate George W. Bush cited Myron Magnet's, ''The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass'' (1993), as having an impact on how he conducted his approach to public policy. Bush went on to say "''The Dream and the Nightmare'' by Myron Magnet crystallized for me the impact the failed culture of the '60s had on our values and society".
Terrorism and social unrest (2001–2009)
After the
attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the institute formed the Center for Tactical Counterterrorism (CTCT), later renamed the
Center for Policing Terrorism
The Center for Policing Terrorism (CPT) is a national-security think tank formed after 9/11 in New York City.
Founding personalities
The Center's founders included former National Security Council Staffer RP Eddy and former White House Counter- ...
(CPT). The group was created at the request of the NYPD, to provide research into new policing techniques with the goal of retraining officers to become "first preventers" to future mass-casualty attacks.
Eddy brought on board
Tim Connors, a West Point and
Notre Dame Law School
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graduate, to oversee the day-to-day operations of the CTCT. The CTCT began publishing reports and white papers on intelligence fusion centers, local counterterrorism strategies, and intelligence-led policing. With help of institute staffers
Mark Riebling
Mark Riebling (born 1963) is an American author. He has written two books: '' Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA'' and '' Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler''.
Education
Riebling did graduate work in political phi ...
and
Pete Patton, the center produced briefings on terrorist attacks around the world and presented them at weekly meetings with the Counterterrorism Bureau. The institute's counterterrorism strategy also built upon Broken Windows and CompStat policing models by training police in problem-solving techniques, data analysis, and order maintenance.
In January 2005, the CTCT cautioned against the construction of a new
United Nations
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structure over the
Queens Midtown Tunnel
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, which would have increased the value of the tunnel as a potential terrorist target.
CTCT, and later CPT, continued publishing research until 2008 when it was absorbed into National Consortium for Advanced Policing.
2009–present
In 2010, Institute senior fellow
Steve Malanga Steven Malanga is an American journalist. He is a contributing editor to ''City Journal'' and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, which publishes ''City Journal''. His primary area of focus is economic development within dense urban centers, ...
(a former ''
Crain Communications
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History
Gustavus Dedman (G.D.) Crain, Jr. ( Gustavus Demetrious Crain, Jr.; 1885–1973), pre ...
'' executive editor) published ''Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer''.
After the
financial crisis of 2007–2008
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, senior fellow
Nicole Gelinas
Nicole Gelinas (born June 13, 1975) is an American conservative journalist, Chartered Financial Analyst, editor for the ''New York Post'', and senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Career
Gelinas received a Bachelor o ...
wrote her first book, ''After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street — and Washington'' (Encounter, 2011). In the book, she argues that after over two decades of broken regulation and the federal government's adoption of a "too big to fail" policy for the largest or most complex financial companies eventually posed an untenable risk to the economy. The institute has also worked closely with others, including
Charles W. Calomiris Charles William Calomiris (born November 8, 1957) is an American financial policy expert, author, and professor at Columbia Business School, where he is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions and the Director of Columbia Business Scho ...
at
Columbia Business School
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. Calomiris criticized the Dodd-Frank financial regulations passed in response to the 2007–2008 financial crisis.
Paul Howard, the institute's former director of health policy, advocated regulatory reform to allow private industry to develop medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
In 2012, Institute senior fellow
Kay Hymowitz
Kay S. Hymowitz (born December 25, 1948) is an American author.
Early life and education
Born in Philadelphia, she earned her B.A. at Brandeis University, and her M.A. in English literature from Tufts University.
Career
She taught English lit ...
released ''Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys'', arguing that too many American men in their 20s have started to prolong adolescence. ''Governing'' magazine columnist and urban-policy blogger Aaron Renn also joined the institute in 2012.
Programs
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The institute founded its quarterly magazine on urban policy and culture called ''
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. The magazine ...
'' in 1990.
, it is edited by
Brian C. Anderson
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Brian C. Anderson is an American writer and editor of ''City Journal'', a quarterly magazine, published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Anderson received his BA and MA from Boston College. He obtained a doctorate in pol ...
,; contributors include Heather Mac Donald, Theodore Dalrymple, Nicole Gelinas, Steven Malanga, Edward L. Glaeser, Kay Hymowitz, Victor Davis Hanson, Judith Miller, and John Tierney.
The
Adam Smith Society was founded by the institute in 2011. ''Bloomberg'' describes it as a nationwide chapter-based association of business school students who “double down on” capitalism. , the organization had nine professional chapters, located in
Austin
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...
,
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
Chicago
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Dallas
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,
Houston
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,
London
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,
New York City
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,
San Francisco
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, and 33 student chapters at such schools as the
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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,
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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, and the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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.
Created in 2006, the institute's Veritas Fund for Higher Education was a
donor advised fund
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that invested in universities and professors. The fund invested in courses related to western civilization, the American founding, and political economy.
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The institute formed its
Project FDA in 2006 to focus on ways to improve FDA regulations. Notable members of the committee include former FDA commissioner
Andrew C. von Eschenbach and former Oklahoma senator (now Institute senior fellow)
Tom Coburn
Thomas Allen Coburn (March 14, 1948 – March 28, 2020) was an American politician and physician who served as a United States senator for Oklahoma from 2005, until his resignation in 2015. A Republican, he previously served as a United St ...
.
Economics21
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(E21) joined the institute in 2013 as the organization's Washington-based research center focused on economic issues and innovative policy solutions, led by the former chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor during the Reagan administration,
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth (born 1958) is an economist who is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University and a columnist for Forbes.com and Tax Notes. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the Uni ...
. E21 has a partnership with the
Shadow Open Market Committee
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, which was established in 2009, prior to its association with the institute. The independent group of economists meet twice a year to evaluate the policy choices and actions of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee. E21 partners with the
Shadow Open Market Committee
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(SOMC), an independent group of economists, first organized in 1973 by
Karl Brunner, from the
University of Rochester
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The University of Roc ...
, and
Allan Meltzer
Allan H. Meltzer (; February 6, 1928 – May 8, 2017) was an American economist and Allan H. Meltzer Professor of Political Economy at Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and Institute for Politics and Strategy in Pittsburgh, ...
, from
Carnegie Mellon University
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, to provide a
monetarist
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alternative to the views on monetary policy and its inflation effects then prevailing at the
Federal Reserve
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and within the economics profession. Its original objective was to evaluate the policy choices and actions of the
Federal Open Market Committee
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(FOMC), but has since broadened its scope to cover a wide range of macroeconomic policy issues.
In 2015, the institute launched
SchoolGrades.org
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, claiming that it was the only grading system that uses a rigorous, common standard to compare schools across the U.S.—accounting for differences in academic standards across states and each school's unique economic profile to provide a comprehensive picture of school performance in core subjects. The institute also launched ''The Beat'' in 2015. The Beat is an email that focuses on issues that matter most to New York, drawing on the work of Manhattan Institute scholars: transportation, education, quality of life, and the local goings-on at City Hall.
The Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner was created in 2001 to recognize people who worked to revitalize American cities. It is named after
Alexander Hamilton
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Born out of wedlock in Charlest ...
. Throughout the years, the institute has expanded the scope of the prize to leaders on local, state, and national levels, working in public policy, culture, and philanthropy. Past honorees include:
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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,
William F. Buckley Jr.
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,
Rudolph Giuliani
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,
Tom Wolfe
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,
Rupert Murdoch
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,
Raymond Kelly
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,
Henry Kissinger
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, Cardinal
Timothy Dolan
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Dolan served as the president of the United S ...
,
Bobby Jindal
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,
Paul Ryan
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,
Jeb Bush
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,
George Kelling, and
Eva Moskowitz
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.
Policy positions and initiatives
The institute supports
free-market
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ideas, focusing on urban policy, education, public finance and pensions, energy and the environment, health policy, legal reform, and economics.
State and local policy
The institute focuses on both national and local issues, including
municipal finance
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,
public pensions
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,
infrastructure
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,
welfare
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,
policing
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, and
housing
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.
The institute pushed for
welfare reform in the mid-1990s. On the 20th anniversary of the
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
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, the institute published a report by former senior fellow Scott Winship defending the act.
The institute has published multiple books focused on America's cities; in 1997 it published ''Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America'', authored by then-Indianapolis Mayor
Stephen Goldsmith
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. In 2015 it published ''The Next Urban Renaissance''. In 2016, it published ''Retooling Metropolis''.
Howard Husock
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Howard Husock is vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, where he is also director of its Social Entrepreneurship Initiative and a contributing editor to the Institute's quarterly magazine, ''City Journal''. He is t ...
joined the Manhattan Institute in 2006 as vice president of policy research and director of the institute's Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Steve Malanga has criticized public-sector unions and said that states like California and New Jersey suffer from political leadership. Cities Malanga has profiled include Stockton, California; Atlantic City, New Jersey; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Houston, Texas; and Dallas, Texas.
Josh McGee
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People A–J
* "Josh", an early pseudonym of S ...
, vice president at the
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Arnold Ventures LLC (formerly known as The Laura and John Arnold Foundation) is focused on evidence-based giving in a wide range of categories including: criminal justice, education, health care, and public finance. The organization was founded by ...
, joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow in 2015.
Broken windows theory
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The institute supports the
broken windows theory
In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes. The theory suggests that pol ...
, named after a 1982 ''
Atlantic Monthly
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
'' article "Broken Windows" by
James Q. Wilson
James Quinn Wilson (May 27, 1931 – March 2, 2012) was an American political scientist and an authority on public administration. Most of his career was spent as a professor at UCLA and Harvard University. He was the chairman of the Council of A ...
and
George L. Kelling
George Lee Kelling (August 21, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a
fellow at ...
.
Senior fellow
Heather Mac Donald
Heather Lynn Mac Donald (born November 23, 1956) is an American conservative political commentator, essayist, attorney, and author.Charles C. W. Cooke, February 26, 2014, National ReviewYes, Atheism and Conservatism are Possible: You needn’t be ...
argues that
crime prevention
Crime prevention is the attempt to reduce and deter crime and criminals. It is applied specifically to efforts made by governments to reduce crime, enforce the law, and maintain criminal justice.
Studies
Criminologists, commissions, and research b ...
statistics from the
2008–2009 recession improved as a result of efficient policing, high incarceration rates, more police officers working, data-driven approaches such as
CompStat
CompStat—or COMPSTAT, short for COMPuter STATistics, is a computerization and quantification program used by police departments. It was originally set up by the New York City Police Department in the 1990s. Variations of the program have since b ...
which helps commanders target high-crime areas, and a policy of holding precinct commanders accountable for results.
This research opposes the commonly-held notion that crime inevitably spikes when economic conditions worsen. She contends the decline of American cities, beginning during the 1960s, was a result of crime "spiraling out of control".
Most recently, Mac Donald has argued that crime rates (or, in some instances, murder rates) have spiked in many urban areas as a result of the "Ferguson Effect": the tendency, in the aftermath of 2014's riots in Ferguson, Missouri, for police officers to engage in less proactive policing for fear of generating backlash from local populations or the media. Mac Donald has controversially argued that the consequences of this trend adversely affect African-American communities, stating that "there is no government agency more dedicated to the idea that black lives matter than the police".
In the 2010s, according to
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
, institute employees were embedded in the
Detroit Police Department
The Detroit Police Department (DPD) is a municipal police force based in and responsible for the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. Founded in 1865, it has nearly 2,500 officers, making it the largest law enforcement organization in Michigan.
Histo ...
, assisting in the implementation of Broken Windows theories. The institute funded an outreach team that shared its perspective on criminology and policy implementation with the Detroit Police Department, focusing on the "broken windows" approach. The institute is associated with
CompStat
CompStat—or COMPSTAT, short for COMPuter STATistics, is a computerization and quantification program used by police departments. It was originally set up by the New York City Police Department in the 1990s. Variations of the program have since b ...
, a police management approach focused on crime analysis, information sharing, and accountability. George Kelling, the institute's loaned executive to the City of Detroit, and Michael Allegretti, the institute's director of state and local programs, implemented two pilot programs in the Northwest neighborhood of
Grandmont-Rosedale and the Northeast neighborhood of
East English Village. One source reported that in the first year following implementation, "home invasions dropped 26 percent".
Education, charter schools and vouchers
Institute senior fellow Beth Akers wrote ''Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debt'' (2016), which says that the student loan system is simply far too complex for the average student or parent borrower to navigate well. She argues that the department of education should simplify federal financial aid, adopt a single, income-driven repayment plan for federal student loans, and bring market-based approaches into student lending.
Former senior fellow Jay P. Greene's research on
school choice
School choice is a term for education options that allow students and families to select alternatives to public schools.
The most common in the United States, by both the number of programs and by the number of participating students are scho ...
was cited four times in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in ''
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
''Zelman v. Simmons-Harris'', 536 U.S. 639 (2002), was a 5–4 decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld an Ohio program that used school vouchers. The Court decided that the program did not violate the Establishment Clause of the Fi ...
'', which affirmed the constitutionality of
school vouchers
A school voucher, also called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents. Funding is usually for a particular year, term, or semester. In some cou ...
.
In March 1989, the institute employed
Seymour "Sy" Fliegel as a senior fellow and launched the
Center for Educational Innovation
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*Center (geometry), the middle of an object
* Center (algebra), used in various contexts
** Center (group theory)
** Center (ring theory)
* Graph center, the set of all vertices of minimum eccentricit ...
(CEI). Fliegel and Institute senior fellow James Macguire wrote a book, ''The Miracle of East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education'', to demonstrate how education reform can be achieved one school at a time.
Energy and environment
In 2005, Institute senior fellows Peter Huber and Mark Mills released the book ''The Bottomless Well'', which disputes several popular beliefs about energy.
Former senior fellow
Oren Cass
Oren M. Cass (born c. 1983) is an American public policy commentator and political advisor, who worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012, and who has been described as a "general policy impresario of the emerging conse ...
has claimed that the popular conception of
climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
as posing an existential threat to modern civilization is not supported by climate science or economics. In 2018, ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' reported that EPA director Scott Pruitt had solicited a meeting with Cass, who told the newspaper that he “encourage
conservatives to accept mainstream climate science and focus on economic analysis and good public policy.” ''The New York Times'' noted that "experts at the institute have expressed skepticism about the projected costs of climate change," but that "the organization does not take a formal position on climate change science."
The institute is largely opposed to government mandates and subsidies and advocates the
hydraulic fracturing
Fracking (also known as hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of bedrock formations by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "frack ...
(fracking) method of extracting natural gas and oil from underground deposits. In response to calls to ban fracking in parts of New York, the institute released a report in 2011 projecting that allowing fracking could "inject over $11 billion into the state economy".
Health policy
Since 2006, the institute's Project FDA has asserted that with modern medicine "on the cusp of a radical transformation" due to breakthroughs in precision medicine, the FDA "has struggled to adapt its regulations to new scientific advances".
Senior fellows Paul Howard, Peter Huber, and Tom Coburn have all argued that the FDA could speed up approvals without sacrificing safety. In October 2015, the institute ran a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, reading, "Everyone will be a patient someday".
The ad included the signatures of over a dozen industry leaders, all in support of the passage of the 21st Century Cures Act, which was signed into law by President Obama just over a year later, in December 2016.
The institute has taken a critical view of the
Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and colloquially known as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by Presid ...
(ACA) since its inception. In 2013, it released its Obamacare Impact Map, a joint project of health policy fellows Paul Howard, Avik Roy, and Yevgeniy Feyman. In 2014, the institute published then senior fellow Avik Roy's proposal for its replacement, titled "Transcending Obamacare". According to Roy, while the ACA delivers on the goal of reducing the number of uninsured Americans, it does so by increasing the cost of U.S. health coverage. More recently, in 2017, the institute released a report by Yevgeniy Feyman advocating the use of 1332 "state innovation" waivers giving states the flexibility to increase choice, competition, and affordability under the ACA.
The institute's health care scholars oppose allowing the federal government to negotiate prices in the
Medicare Part D
Medicare Part D, also called the Medicare prescription drug benefit, is an optional United States federal-government program to help Medicare beneficiaries pay for self-administered prescription drugs. Part D was enacted as part of the Medica ...
prescription drug program and believe that drug price negotiating has adverse effects in the
Veterans Administration
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is a Cabinet-level executive branch department of the federal government charged with providing life-long healthcare services to eligible military veterans at the 170 VA medical centers and ...
.
Institute Senior Fellow Oren Cass goes has argued that the American social safety net's overwhelming emphasis on health care is the unintentional result of skewed incentives. States should therefore be allowed to reroute Medicaid funding to other programs that would more effectively meet the needs of the poor at no extra cost. In a 2017 article for National Review, Cass responded to accusations that repealing the Affordable Care Act would lead to otherwise preventable deaths by writing "In reality, the best statistical estimate of the number of lives saved each year by the ACA is zero".
Legal reform
The institute's legal scholars author policy papers on various aspects of legal reform. The Center for Legal Policy regularly writes on
overcriminalization
Overcriminalization is the concept that criminalization has become excessive, meaning that an excessive number of laws and regulations deeming conduct illegal have a detrimental effect on society, particularly with respect to victimless crimes an ...
,
corporate governance
Corporate governance is defined, described or delineated in diverse ways, depending on the writer's purpose. Writers focused on a disciplinary interest or context (such as accounting, finance, law, or management) often adopt narrow definitions th ...
, and
civil litigation
Civil law is a major branch of the law.Glanville Williams. ''Learning the Law''. Eleventh Edition. Stevens. 1982. p. 2. In common law legal systems such as England and Wales and the law of the United States, United States, the term refers to non ...
reform. Corporate governance reports usually focus on proxy voting records. Overcriminalization issue briefs typically study the growth of the criminal law in state penal codes. Proposed reforms to America's lawsuit practice are published under the center's ongoing publication of Trial Lawyers, Inc.
Overcriminalization
In 2014, the institute began to study the issue of
overcriminalization
Overcriminalization is the concept that criminalization has become excessive, meaning that an excessive number of laws and regulations deeming conduct illegal have a detrimental effect on society, particularly with respect to victimless crimes an ...
, the idea that state and federal criminal codes are overly expansive and growing too quickly. At the federal level alone, Institute fellows have identified over 300,000 laws and regulations whose violation can lead to prison time. The institute asserts that this puts even well-meaning citizens in danger of prosecution for seemingly innocuous conduct. From 2014 to 2016, the institute produced reports on the status of overcriminalization in five states (
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and So ...
,
Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...
,
South Carolina
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,
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
, and
Oklahoma
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) and is continually adding more state-specific research.
Prisoner reentry in Newark
![Cory Booker Speaking 2008 in New York City](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Cory_Booker_Speaking_2008_in_New_York_City.jpg)
In
Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of Essex County and the second largest city within the New York metropolitan area.[Cory Booker
Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969) is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from New Jersey since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. sena ...]
to implement a new approach to prisoner reentry, based on the principle of connecting ex-offenders with paid work immediately upon release.
[Andra Gillespie, ''The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America'' (2013), p. 134-135.] As the mayor of Newark, Booker sought to remedy a problem familiar to those in the community: prisoner reentry. A study by William Eimicke, Maggie Gallagher, Stephen Goldsmith for the institute, ''Moving Men into the Mainstream: Best Practices in Prisoner Reentry'', found that the most successful prisoner-reentry programs were those that employed the work-first model. Booker's staff, and Richard Greenwald, a specialist in the development of workforce, implemented Newark's Prisoner Reentry Initiative (NPRI). As of November 2011, the agencies that contracted with the city through NPRI had enrolled 1,436 program participants, exceeding the benchmark set by the Department of Labor. Provider organizations have placed more than 1,000 people in unsubsidized jobs, with an average hourly wage of $9.32.
Governor
Chris Christie
Christopher James Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, lobbyist, and former federal prosecutor who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.
Christie, who was born in Ne ...
thereafter announced his plan to reform the state's prison system, and sought the institute's analysis of the current system. The final report included a set of recommendations on addressing drug offenses and recidivism, and better aligning New Jersey agencies around a successful reentry strategy.
Economics
Given the concern about
economic inequality
There are wide varieties of economic inequality, most notably income inequality measured using the distribution of income (the amount of money people are paid) and wealth inequality measured using the distribution of wealth (the amount of we ...
among mainstream academics and commentators, especially since the
Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked general decline, i.e. a recession, observed in national economies globally that occurred from late 2007 into 2009. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map). At ...
and the release of
Thomas Piketty
Thomas Piketty (; born 7 May 1971) is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the Int ...
's bestselling ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'', the institute has produced several pieces of research on this and the related issue of
economic mobility
Economic mobility is the ability of an individual, family or some other group to improve (or lower) their economic status—usually measured in income. Economic mobility is often measured by movement between income quintiles. Economic mobility ...
in the U.S. In 2014, former senior fellow
Scott Winship
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* Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380
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produced a report, "Inequality Does Not Reduce Prosperity", which examined evidence from across the globe. This report contended that larger increases in inequality correspond with sharper rises in living standards for the middle class and poor alike, while greater inequality in developed nations tends to accompany stronger economic growth. In a 2015 report, Winship examined the state of economic and residential mobility in the U.S., finding that people who move from their birth states fare better economically than those who stay put. He argues that the U.S. should focus on policies to improve mobility in order to expand opportunities among disadvantaged groups.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Diana Furchtgott-Roth (born 1958) is an economist who is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University and a columnist for Forbes.com and Tax Notes. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the Uni ...
, formerly a senior fellow, has argued for a reduction in the corporate tax rate and a move to a territorial tax system, in order to make the U.S. more economically competitive on the world stage. In 2015, Roth, together with former fellow
Jared Meyer, published the book, ''Disinherited: How America Is Betraying America's Young'', arguing that millennials' plight is the result of government policies that are systematically stacked against young Americans to the benefit of older generations.
The institute has criticized plans to expand the federal
minimum wage
A minimum wage is the lowest remuneration that employers can legally pay their employees—the price floor below which employees may not sell their labor. Most countries had introduced minimum wage legislation by the end of the 20th century. Bec ...
. In 2015, it published a report by American Action Forum's Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Ben Gitis, which made the case that an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020 would cost 6.6 million jobs. A 2016 report by
Oren Cass
Oren M. Cass (born c. 1983) is an American public policy commentator and political advisor, who worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2008 and 2012, and who has been described as a "general policy impresario of the emerging conse ...
argued that these deleterious effects are mainly due to the fact that increases in the federal minimum fail to account for differences in local conditions: not all labor markets are the same. Cass has also argued for the introduction of a federal wage subsidy—additional dollars per hour worked delivered via one's paycheck—as a better third way to help low-income workers. In 2015, he wrote that a wage subsidy is superior to both the minimum wage and
Earned Income Tax Credit
The United States federal earned income tax credit or earned income credit (EITC or EIC) is a refundable tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples, particularly those with children. The amount of EITC benefit depends ...
(EITC) because it incentivizes workforce participation and delivers benefits directly to workers, without distorting the labor market.
Notable people
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John Avlon
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(former senior fellow)
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Rick Baker
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, former mayor of St. Petersburg, FL
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Josh Barro
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(former senior fellow)
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Herman Badillo
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Lester Brickman
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, visiting scholar
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Richard Epstein
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, visiting scholar
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Floyd Flake
Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945) is an American businessman and former politician who is the senior pastor of the 23,000 member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and former president of W ...
, fellow; religious leader and former U.S. Representative (D-NY)
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Daniel DiSalvo Daniel Ross DiSalvo is a political scientist, author, senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and professor and chair of political science in the Colin Powell School at the City College of New York– CUNY.
DiSalvo earned a B ...
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David Frum
David Jeffrey Frum (; born June 30, 1960) is a Canadian-American political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, who is currently a senior editor at ''The Atlantic'' as well as an MSNBC contributor. In 2003, Frum au ...
(former senior fellow)
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Diana Furchtgott-Roth
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, senior fellow
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David Gratzer David George Gratzer (born September 5, 1974) is a physician, columnist, author, Congressional expert witness; he was a senior fellow at both the Manhattan Institute and the Montreal Economic Institute. Though he has written essays on topics as dive ...
, senior fellow
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Regina Herzlinger
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, professor at Harvard Business School
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Peter W. Huber
Peter William Huber (November 3, 1952 – January 8, 2021) was a lawyer and author who served as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and was a founding partner at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. He is credi ...
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Coleman Hughes
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, fellow
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Howard Husock
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, vice president, research and publications
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John Leo
John Patrick Leo (June 16, 1935 – May 9, 2022) was an American writer and journalist. He was noted for authoring columns in the ''National Catholic Reporter'' and '' U.S. News & World Report'', as well as for his reporting with ''The New Yor ...
(former senior fellow)
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George L. Kelling
George Lee Kelling (August 21, 1935 – May 15, 2019) was an American criminologist, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University–Newark, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a
fellow at ...
, adjunct fellow, Center for Civic Innovation
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Bill Kristol
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James Manzi, senior fellow
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John McWhorter
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(former senior fellow)
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Charles Murray Charles Murray may refer to:
Politicians
*Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore (1661–1710), British peer
*Charles Murray (author and diplomat) (1806–1895), British author and diplomat
*Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore (1841–1907), Scotti ...
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Walter Olson
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(former senior fellow)
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James Piereson
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Jason L. Riley, senior fellow
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Avik Roy
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Roy was born in Rochester, Michigan, to Indian immigrant parents, and attended high school in Be ...
(former senior fellow)
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Reihan Salam
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, president
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Paul Singer, board of trustees chair
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Abigail Thernstrom
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(former senior fellow)
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Stephan Thernstrom
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(former senior fellow)
Notable ''City Journal'' people
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Brian C. Anderson
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Anderson received his BA and MA from Boston College. He obtained a doctorate in pol ...
, editor of ''City Journal''
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Theodore Dalrymple
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, contributing editor
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Victor Davis Hanson
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, contributing editor
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Edward Glaeser
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He was educated a ...
, senior fellow and contributing editor
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Kay Hymowitz
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Early life and education
Born in Philadelphia, she earned her B.A. at Brandeis University, and her M.A. in English literature from Tufts University.
Career
She taught English lit ...
, senior fellow and contributing editor
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Andrew Klavan
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Klavan has also worked in film and as an essayist and video satirist. He is also ...
, contributing editor
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Heather Mac Donald
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, senior fellow and contributing editor
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Myron Magnet
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, editor-at-large
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Steven Malanga Steven Malanga is an American journalist. He is a contributing editor to ''City Journal'' and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, which publishes ''City Journal''. His primary area of focus is economic development within dense urban centers, ...
, senior fellow and senior editor
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Judith Miller
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, adjunct fellow and contributing editor
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Christopher Rufo
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, senior fellow and contributor
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Fred Siegel
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, senior fellow and contributing editor
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Guy Sorman
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Biography
Guy Sorman has written twenty books that promote the ideals of creativity and modern ca ...
, contributing editor
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Harry Stein, contributing editor
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John Tierney, contributing editor
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Luigi Zingales
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, contributing editor
See also
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City Journal
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Empire Center for Public Policy
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History
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References
Further reading
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Fred KaplanConservatives plant a seed in NYC''Boston Sunday Globe'', Sunday February 22, 1998
* Janny Scott
''New York Times'', Monday May 12, 1997
* Jennifer Medina
''New York Times'', Feb. 13, 2008.
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Urban Institute
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Political and economic think tanks in the United States
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