Tal Fortgang

5 days ago | lawliberty.org | Tom Cotton |Gage Klipper |Tal Fortgang |James Diddams

In March, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA). For the first time, the ATA identified the People’s Republic of China as the most capable threat actor that now confronts the United States. The reasons for ranking China as the top threat—militarily, economically, diplomatically, and informationally—are made clear in Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, a crisply written new book by US Senator Tom Cotton.

6 days ago | city-journal.org | Charles Lehman |Rafael A. Mangual |Renu Mukherjee |Tal Fortgang

Charles Fain Lehman, Rafael Mangual, Renu Mukherjee, and Tal Fortgang discuss the latest Columbia University student protest, the Trump administration’s fight with Harvard, and highlights from the Manhattan Institute’s annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner. Audio TranscriptCharles Fain Lehman: Live from New York and the Paulson Media Room at the Manhattan Institute. This is the City Journal Podcast.

1 week ago | lawliberty.org | Rachel Lomasky |Charles T. Rubin |Gage Klipper |Tal Fortgang

In his forum lead, Charles T. Rubin worries that turning human governance over to artificial general intelligence (AGI) will cause immense problems. The world, in particular the United States, has many incompetent government officials. We don’t need to worry, though, that soon some of them will be robot overlords—that technology is nowhere in sight.

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Rafael A. Mangual |Frederick M. Hess |Richard Keck |Tal Fortgang

Good morning: President Trump gave voice to many Americans’ concerns about crime and civil disorder during the 2024 campaign. His support for law enforcement and his opposition to a radical decarceration agenda earned him the support rank-and-file officers. Now, as Nick Ohnell fellow Rafael A. Mangual argues in City Journal, the president “took a meaningful step toward making good on his campaign promises with a wide-ranging executive order on policing,” released Monday.

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Tal Fortgang

A recent cancellation poses a challenge to Princeton’s newfound commitment to free speech. When presidents from our top-ranked universities averred before a Congressional committee that they could not crack down on anti-Israel demonstrations last fall, their explanations fell flat. They claimed they were dedicated to the principles of free speech, academic freedom, and the pursuit of knowledge no matter how uncomfortable. Even calls for genocide could be protected depending on the context.