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2022 George L. Kelling Lecture: Fighting Back Disorder In American Cities

How Dare Left-Wing Prosecutors Insist Their Policies Are ‘Working' While a Murder Surge Disproportionately Slaughters Black Americans

Considering the unprecedented murder surge in America's cities over the last two years, one might expect progressive district attorneys to reconsider the policies that have kept criminals out of jails and on the streets.

Think again.

The Corruption of Medicine

Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field.The Corruption of Medicine

Woke Medical Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health

If physicians are trained to combat ‘systemic racism,’ their ability to treat disease will suffer.

Unabridged

The conservative reaction to George Soros’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed exemplifies free-speech principles—in contrast with the behavior of left-wing papers like the New York Times.Unabridged

City Journal Awards

Dems Ludicrously Cast Themselves as ‘Tough on Crime'

How stupid does the White House think Americans are?

Biden's Green Hypocrisy

The president’s attempt to lift the federal gas tax exposes the hollowness of climate-change rhetoric.Biden’s Green Hypocrisy

BLM Is Silent on the Top Killer of Black Kids

The leading cause of death in children caused by guns, particularly gang violence, a fact Black Lives Matter seems to ignore.

Using Tragedy for Racial Propaganda

After the horror in Buffalo, President Biden and others peddle an entirely false charge: that whites are the biggest source of hate crime and interracial violence in the U.S.Using Tragedy for Racial Propaganda