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The Brief and Wondrous Life of Intersectionality

6 days ago | manhattan.institute | Tal Fortgang

Why the movement’s decline was all but inevitableIntersectionality is in crisis. It is reeling from the Republican-led assault on left-wing radicalism, retreating to its campus redoubt. If it passes from our public discourse, its epitaph should read: “Often wrong, never in doubt.”Evidence of intersectionality’s ongoing if incomplete demise accumulates by the day.
Harvard v. Trump

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | James B. Meigs

Good morning: This week, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and federal funding for Harvard University. This was in response to Harvard University President Alan M. Garber’s announcement that the institution would not comply with the administration’s demands for reform.
How We Can Help Stop Reckless Drivers from Killing Pedestrians

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Nicole Gelinas

On Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, two spring car crashes, about a quarter-century apart, have exacted a death toll of five pedestrians. Nearly 24 years ago, 15-year-old Inna Shatman and her sister, 10-year-old Svetlana, were waiting to cross when a speeding driverkilled the girls and severely injured their mother.
Fight Club: Execute Luigi Mangione?

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Charles Lehman |Nick Gillespie

Charles Fain Lehman, fellow at the Manhattan Institute and senior editor of City Journal, believes Mangione’s crime is the very reason the death penalty exists: to draw a hard moral line against political violence in a democratic society. Nick Gillespie, editor at large at Reason magazine and host of The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie, disagrees. He says the government has no business taking a life—no matter what. First up, Charles Fain Lehman:With Luigi Mangione, the moral facts are clear.
Texas Public Universities Are In for a Wake-Up Call

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Neetu Chandak

State Senator Brandon Creighton (SD-4) proposed Senate Bill 37 on March 13. If it were to pass, the Texas legislature would establish a General Education Review Committee, tasked with checking current courses that qualify for general education credit at Texas public universities. The results of the Committee’s investigation would be made publicly available online on an annual basis. The general education requirements at Texas public universities are in dire need of such a review.
Passover Helps Jews Navigate the Paradoxes of Our Age

1 week ago | manhattan.institute | Tal Fortgang

It allows the Jewish people to transcend the vicissitudes of time and the temptations of victimhood. A few paradoxes now attend to Jewish life in America. The most puzzling is that we are both loved and hated. Americans have “warmer” feelings for Jews than for any other religious group. Yet Jews are also the group most likely to be attacked because of our identity.
Do You Miss Neoliberalism Yet?

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Allison Schrager

After US tariffs destroy what is left of the world economic order, policy that values free markets and free trade will be due for a comeback. While much of the world recoils at the turmoil in markets, the upending of the global economy and the overwhelming uncertainty, I am feeling an odd sense of calm. Why? Because I am a proud neoliberal, and after President Donald Trump’s tariffs destroy what is left of the post-neoliberal world order, neoliberalism itself will be due for a comeback.
“Greed is Good” and Tariffs are Turbulent

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Christina Buttons

Good morning: This week, Manhattan Institute scholars responded to the ongoing fallout from President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.” With so much uncertainty swirling, MI scholars put today’s tariff turbulence in perspective.
Americans Want to Be Rich

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Reihan Salam |Charles Lehman

The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support. In a February interview, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona observed that when talking with Latino men on the campaign trail, he had been struck by their emphasis on earning money as a source of pride. As he put it in underscoring the point, “Every Latino man wants a big-ass truck.” What more perfect emblem is there for making it in the America of 2025?
Trump Is Ruining His Supporters’ Dreams

2 weeks ago | manhattan.institute | Reihan Salam |Charles Lehman

The president won by appealing to strivers, hoping to get rich. His tariffs now threaten that support. In a February interview, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona observed that when talking with Latino men on the campaign trail, he had been struck by their emphasis on earning money as a source of pride. As he put it in underscoring the point, “Every Latino man wants a big-ass truck.” What more perfect emblem is there for making it in the America of 2025?