City Journal's 10 Blocks
367 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 558 ratingsCity Journal's 10 Blocks, a weekly podcast hosted by editor Brian C. Anderson, features discussions on urban policy and culture with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests. Forthcoming episodes will be devoted to topics such as: predictive policing, the Bronx renaissance, reform of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, homelessness in Portland, Oregon, and more. City Journal is a quarterly print and regular online magazine published by the Manhattan Institute.
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Episodes
New York’s Budget Fights
May 12, 2023 18:24 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBManhattan Institute fellow and director of state and local policy John Ketcham joins City Journal associate editor Theodore Kupfer to discuss the New York State and City budgets and a recent Manhattan Institute report on cost-saving measures the city can take.
Newsom’s Prospects
May 05, 2023 16:01 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBRepublican political consultant Luke Thompson joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss California governor Gavin Newsom's rise to power and viability as a possible presidential candidate.
“Equity” Over Merit
April 27, 2023 17:24 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBHeather Mac Donald, the Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal, joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss her new book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.
Medicine Goes Woke
April 19, 2023 17:51 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MBPhysician and Do No Harm chairman Stanley Goldfarb joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the racialization of medical research and treatments.
Chicago’s Future
April 12, 2023 17:07 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBGeorge C. Dix Professor in Constitutional Law at Northwestern University School of Law and City Journal contributing editor John O. McGinnis joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the results of Chicago’s mayoral election.
Affirming the Binary
April 07, 2023 16:20 - 16 minutes - 23 MBEvolutionary biologist and Manhattan Institute fellow Colin Wright joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the male–female distinction and regulating gender medicine.
California Reparations
March 29, 2023 18:18 - 13 minutes - 18.1 MBFinance professional and Venice Neighborhood Council member Soledad Ursúa joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss California's plan to offer reparations to black residents descended from slaves.
Banking Turmoil
March 22, 2023 19:55 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBManhattan Institute senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor Nicole Gelinas joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the stability of our financial system.
Resisting Californication
March 16, 2023 13:54 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBMI senior fellow Christopher F. Rufo and journalist Abigail Shrier join Brian C. Anderson to discuss their stories in City Journal’s new California special issue and the long-term trajectory of the Golden State.
Rescuing Rikers
March 09, 2023 19:37 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBNew York City Department of Corrections commissioner Louis A. Molina joins Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Charles Fain Lehman to discuss the state and future of the Rikers Island jail complex.
Keeping the Lights On
March 01, 2023 16:12 - 16 minutes - 23.2 MBManhattan Institute senior fellow Brian Riedl joins Brian Anderson to discuss the debt ceiling, the limits of prioritization, and the unsustainable long-term future of federal spending.
The End of Journalism’s Golden Age
February 23, 2023 17:40 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBCity Journal contributing editor and longtime Time essayist Lance Morrow joins Brian Anderson to discuss the history of journalism. His new book, The Noise of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism, is out February 28 and available for pre-order now.
The New Democratic Coalition
February 16, 2023 15:15 - 21 minutes - 29.2 MBManhattan Institute policy analyst Zach Goldberg joins Brian Anderson to discuss the growing prominence of college-educated whites in the Democratic Party, how this group increasingly sets the party’s agenda, and the implications of the changing Democratic coalition for the GOP.
Can New York City Solve Its Migrant Crisis?
February 10, 2023 18:58 - 20 minutes - 28 MBManhattan Institute graduate fellow Daniel Di Martino joins Brian Anderson to discuss the wave of migration to New York City, the roots of the federal border crisis, and the policies needed to fix the U.S. immigration system.
Tyre Nichols and the State of Policing
February 03, 2023 17:39 - 18 minutes - 26 MBRafael Mangual joins Brian Anderson to discuss the killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis and the broader criminal-justice landscape.
Lee Zeldin on New York’s Future
January 25, 2023 18:13 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBLee Zeldin, the former congressman and 2022 Republican nominee for governor of New York, joins Reihan Salam to discuss the lessons of his campaign and the political future of the Empire State.
The New Human Sacrifice
January 17, 2023 16:08 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBCritic Adam Kirsch joins Brian Anderson to discuss his new book, The Revolt Against Humanity: Imagining a Future Without Us, out now.
The Persistence of Deinstitutionalization
January 12, 2023 14:35 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBJournalist John Hirschauer joins Brian Anderson to discuss the closure of Pennsylvania state-run institutions for the developmentally and intellectually disabled, the historical roots of deinstitutionalization, and New York City’s changing approach to the seriously mentally ill.
The Last Gasp of Pandemic Restrictions?
January 06, 2023 15:25 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBDoctor and economist Joel M. Zinberg joins Brian Anderson to discuss the "tripledemic" of Covid, flu and RSV, the relationship of public health and epidemiology to real-world evidence, and the Covid situation in China.
Lessons from New York’s Crime Decline
December 21, 2022 17:19 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBFormer NYPD commissioner Raymond Kelly discusses the state of crime policy in New York with CBS law-enforcement analyst James A. Gagliano.
Does Information Still Want to Be Free?
December 14, 2022 16:06 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBTechFreedom’s Internet policy counsel and director of appellate litigation Corbin K. Barthold joins Theodore Kupfer to discuss digital authoritarianism in China, the possibility of decentralized social control in the West, and the new era of Twitter.
Grover Cleveland Revisited
December 07, 2022 16:13 - 27 minutes - 38.5 MBAuthor Troy Senik joins Brian Anderson to discuss his new book, A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland.
New York’s Gambling-and-Weed Economic Strategy
December 01, 2022 17:58 - 21 minutes - 29.7 MBMI senior fellow and CJ contributing editor Nicole Gelinas joins Brian Anderson to discuss New York's promotion of vice, the downsides of gambling and legal marijuana as an economic-development strategy, and the results of the 2022 midterm elections in the Empire State.
Can Policymakers Solve the Housing Crisis?
November 22, 2022 16:34 - 26 minutes - 37.1 MBRenowned urban economist Edward Glaeser joins MI senior fellow and City Journal contributing editor James B. Meigs to discuss the American housing crisis and how—or whether—it can be fixed.
Can We Have Progress Again?
November 15, 2022 21:02 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBAuthor and investor Michael Gibson joins Brian Anderson to discuss the work of the 1517 Fund and the Thiel Fellowship, why real technological progress has stalled and how elite universities contribute to that stagnation, and what some promising new educational models and institutions look like. His book, Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University, will be published November 29.
Previewing the Midterm Elections
November 02, 2022 15:13 - 40 minutes - 56 MBWashington Free Beacon reporter Joseph Simonson joins Theodore Kupfer to discuss the 2022 midterms, including races in Ohio, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and more.
Legal Weed: What Went Wrong?
October 27, 2022 15:00 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MBManhattan Institute scholars Steven Malanga and Charles Fain Lehman join Brian Anderson to discuss the persistent black market for marijuana, the possibility of renewed drug enforcement against illegal pot, and the changing nature of the drug.
The Utility of Incarceration
October 19, 2022 14:41 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBCriminologists Barry Latzer and John Paul Wright join Rafael A. Mangual to discuss the continuing need to punish serious crimes.
Woke Across the Pond
October 12, 2022 14:19 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBAuthor Joanna Williams joins Brian Anderson to discuss progressivism in the United Kingdom, whether wokeness is an American export, and the effects of activism on the publishing industry. Her new book, How Woke Won: The Elitist Movement that Threatens Democracy, Tolerance and Reason, is out now.
Protecting the Public
October 05, 2022 16:34 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBFormer attorney general William Barr discusses the twentieth-century crime wave, the strategies that reversed it, and the risk of bad policy unleashing a wave of violence.
How the Government Created Racial Categories
September 28, 2022 14:31 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBAmericans are understandably squeamish about official racial and ethnic classifications. Nevertheless, these classifications are ubiquitous in American life—and their boundaries are policed by the government. On this week's special episode, Manhattan Institute senior fellow and director of constitutional studies Ilya Shapiro moderates a panel featuring David Bernstein, professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School; Glenn Loury, Manhattan Institute Paulson fellow; and A...
Are Culture Wars a Policy Issue?
September 21, 2022 18:49 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBOn this special episode of 10 Blocks, Manhattan Institute fellow and City Journal contributing editor Charles Fain Lehman is joined by the Cato Institute's Emily Ekins, The Spectator's Ben Domenech, and National Review's Nate Hochman to discuss the public-policy implications of cultural disputes.
A Vision for Mental Health Reform
September 14, 2022 16:50 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MBStephen Eide joins Brian Anderson to discuss his new report on the continuum of care, proposing a structure for mental-health systems across the United States. His new report, authored with MI adjunct fellow Carolyn Gorman, is out this week.
Sizing Up the Education Wars
September 07, 2022 15:53 - 24 minutes - 33 MBPolitical scientist and MI adjunct fellow Michael Hartney joins Theodore Kupfer to discuss education policy, the political power of teachers' unions, and democratic contestation in the public school system. His new book, How Policies Make Interest Groups: Governments, Unions, and American Education, is out this month.
Student Loans and Social Policy
August 31, 2022 16:45 - 23 minutes - 32.4 MBMI fellow Robert VerBruggen joins Brian Anderson to discuss the Biden administration's executive actions on student debt, the growing higher-education bubble, and the enduring relevance of Charles Murray's work on social policy.
Elite Insecurity
August 24, 2022 15:21 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MBMartin Gurri joins Brian Anderson to discuss the loosening elite grip on power, the fractured media landscape, and information flows in a world of democratic contestation.
Repeating Old Mistakes
August 17, 2022 16:08 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBCity Journal contributing editor Judge Glock joins Brian Anderson to discuss public policies that encourage drug addiction, the relationship of drug abuse to homelessness and crime, and the wisdom of government intervention in the economy.
Is the Rent Too Damn High?
August 11, 2022 13:42 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBMI senior fellows Eric Kober and Michael Hendrix discuss the housing market in New York City. They're joined by Rebecca Baird-Remba of Commercial Observer and David Schleicher of Yale Law School.
Washington’s Dizzying Two Weeks
August 04, 2022 14:06 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MBFiscal-policy expert and MI senior fellow Brian Riedl joins Brian Anderson to discuss Joe Manchin's reconciliation deal on climate change, health care, and taxes; new subsidies for the semiconductor industry; and the future of federal policymaking in an inflationary environment.
What We Know about the Crime Spike
July 27, 2022 14:58 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MBRafael A. Mangual and Peter Moskos discuss the causes of the post-2020 crime spike, how violence affects everything from quality of life to childhood education, and the distance between theory and practice in the criminal-justice world. Mangual’s new book, Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most, is out now.
Metapolitics
July 20, 2022 15:18 - 44 minutes - 61.6 MBOliver Traldi joins Theodore Kupfer to discuss the role of expertise in American life, the origins and future of wokeness, and the sources of political belief.
Is an Energy Crisis Imminent?
July 14, 2022 15:23 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MBFormer Popular Mechanics editor and new Manhattan Institute senior fellow James B. Meigs joins Brian Anderson to discuss the state of the global energy economy, the technological innovations that could make energy use more efficient, and the bad policies that contributed to the current crunch.
Betsy DeVos on Education Freedom
July 06, 2022 19:53 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBFormer secretary of education Betsy DeVos joins Reihan Salam to discuss the case for school choice, the curriculum wars, and the need for educational transparency.
Understanding SCOTUS’s New York Gun-Control Ruling
June 30, 2022 16:48 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBNicole Gelinas, Rafael A. Mangual, and Robert VerBruggen join Brian Anderson to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in NYSRPA v. Bruen, including its possible effects on public safety in New York City, the implications of its legal reasoning, and the likely response by city and state lawmakers.
Zoning Out Growth
June 23, 2022 18:28 - 17 minutes - 23.9 MBUrban planner and Mercatus Center scholar M. Nolan Gray joins Brian Anderson to discuss municipal zoning’s past, present, and future. His new book, Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It, is out now.
Explaining Western Success
June 16, 2022 14:04 - 28 minutes - 39 MBHarvard professor and human evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich discusses the psychological, cultural, and institutional roots of Western development. His latest book, The WEIRDest People In the World, received the Manhattan Institute's 2022 Hayek book prize.
A Turning Point for San Francisco?
June 09, 2022 17:57 - 15 minutes - 21.1 MBSan Francisco–based journalist Erica Sandberg joins Brian Anderson to discuss the Chesa Boudin recall election, the broad-based coalition of voters who ousted the district attorney, and whether this week marks a mere blip for the city or the beginning of a new era.
A History of Homelessness
June 01, 2022 14:26 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBMI senior fellow Stephen Eide joins Brian Anderson to discuss the meaning of homelessness, how the concept has evolved over the course of U.S. history, and the public-policy roots of the nation's current homelessness crisis.
Policing in the Information Age
May 25, 2022 16:14 - 42 minutes - 58.3 MBOn this week’s special episode, communications consultant Yael Bar Tur, police chief Art Acevedo, and Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi joined Rafael A. Mangual to discuss law enforcement in the time of the Internet.
Recovering Statesmanship
May 18, 2022 14:27 - 32 minutes - 44.6 MBProfessor Daniel J. Mahoney joins Brian Anderson to discuss history's great statesmen, the classical and Christian underpinnings of their virtues, and attempts to write certain figures out of history. His new book, The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation, is out now.