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Warren Buffett’s Missed Opportunity | City Journal
WEBAug 22, 2024 — Warren Buffett’s Missed Opportunity. The mogul could have created a nonprofit to challenge the Gates Foundation’s dominance. In 2006, Warren Buffett pledged most of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He told Fortune that he had always planned to give the money away, but “I came to realize that there was a terrific ...
Beyond Scandal - City Journal
WEBAug 19, 2024 — Beyond Scandal. The 2024 presidential campaign invites a sense of realism. / Eye on the News / Politics and law. Aug 19 2024 / Share. Every presidential campaign opens with a controversy and closes with a scandal. Faced with this prospect, some observers feel disgust, others stoically accept it as the way of the world, and still others …
DEI v. Science | City Journal
WEBAug 27, 2024 — DEI v. Science. The preference for dogma over scientific inquiry on campuses has become increasingly prevalent. Progressives on campus have quietly undermined scientific research for decades, but in the past year the corruption has become blatant. A series of scandals has exposed widespread bias, incompetence, plagiarism, …
Building a New University on Firm Foundations | City Journal
WEBAug 29 2024 / Share. The weeks and months following the October 7 attacks on Israel revealed the crumbling foundations of America’s universities. Weak presidents, craven faculty, and cynical administrators across the country condoned calls for violence and illegal encampments as part of a larger assault on the West’s history, culture, and ...
Fact-Checking a Police-Shooting Database - City Journal
WEBAug 14, 2024 — According to Fatal Force, the Washington Post ’s police-shooting database, Virgil J. Wolford, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, was killed by police on April 30, 2018. Except he wasn’t. Wolford, Jr. was, in fact, non-fatally shot by the Columbus police after stabbing a woman and pointing a shotgun at officers. In 2019, he received a three-year prison ...
Third Time’s a Charm? | City Journal
WEBAug 26, 2024 — Thirty-six years later, in 1987, the second wave of conservative critiques began, with Allan Bloom’s surprise bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom, then a 47-year-old professor of philosophy, had taught at several elite universities. Students, he reported, were addled by too much TV and rock music.
What Is New York’s Migrant Crime Rate? | City Journal
WEBJul 31, 2024 — Two Sundays ago, two shootings, apparently related, claimed the lives of two men; a third is fighting for his life. The shootings took place just outside a migrant shelter for nearly 800 single adults that has been operating since April, and the three victims are migrants, sources told the New York Post.This double murder, possibly committed by …
On Race and Crime, a Counterfactual Narrative | City Journal
WEBApr 25, 2023 — Every news outlet that covered the shooting led with the race of Yarl and of Lester. Yarl was inevitably identified as a “Black” teenager and Lester as a “white” homeowner. The Kansas City district attorney validated the race narrative. The shooting had a “racial component,” the prosecutor said, without offering evidence.
A Medical Negligence Cartel - City Journal
WEBJun 4, 2024 — A Medical Negligence Cartel. The WPATH files offer a disturbing look into the group’s decision-making process for “gender-affirming” care. In private, leaders of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) express concerns indistinguishable from those of their most ardent critics. This is the conclusion that one ...