The Future of Mobility

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The Future of Mobility

FromCity Journal's 10 Blocks

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Feb 28, 2024

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Jordan McGillis joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss autonomous vehicles’ potential to remake transportation.

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Feb 28, 2024

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City 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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"The Diversity Delusion," with Heather Mac Donald: discusses the decline of the university and the rise of campus intellectual intolerance, the subjects of her important new book, . She spoke at a Manhattan Institute event in autumn 2018. Toxic ideas that originated in academia have now... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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The "Green New Deal" and Trade with China: joins City Journal editor to discuss the Trump administration's trade negotiations with China and the "Green New Deal" proposed by newly elected Democrats in Congress, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Proponents of... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Public-Sector Unions After Janus: joins City Journal editor to discuss the impact of last year’s Supreme Court decision in Janus v. ASFCME, in which the Court ruled that public-sector unions’ mandatory “agency fees” were... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Seattle’s Homeless Challenge: joins City Journal editor to discuss an urban struggle with street homelessness and the political fight around it in the Pacific Northwest's largest city. Known as the “Emerald City” because its surrounding areas are... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Amazon Comes to Queens: joins to discuss the resolution of Amazon's year-long "HQ2" competition. This week, the Internet giant announced that it would open new offices in Crystal City, Virginia—near Washington, D.C.—and New... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Holiday Season in New York: joins to discuss the chaos that commuters and tourists endure on a daily basis in midtown Manhattan—especially during the holiday season. Every year, city officials are criticized for their poor handling of holiday crowds... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Family Court Tragedy: joins City Journal editor to discuss how family court in New York fails vulnerable children and how reforms could improve child-welfare. In the New York Family Court System, judges adjudicate cases... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Inside the Academic Destruction of a University: At the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, Professor Jacob Howland in City Journal, "a new administration has turned a once-vibrant academic institution with a $1.1 billion endowment and a national reputation in core liberal arts subjects... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Congestion Pricing in New York, a New Mayor in Chicago: and join to discuss recent developments in New York and Chicago. In the first week of April, both cities marked milestones: Manhattan got the nation's first congestion-pricing plan, courtesy of the state legislature, while Chicago elected its first... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Charter Schools and Teachers’ Strikes: joins City Journal associate editor to discuss charter schools in New York City, the growing protests by education workers across the country, and Democrats' weakening support for charters. In teachers' unions protests from... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Season’s Greetings and a Brief Holiday Update: Merry Christmas from the editors of City Journal. In another special episode of 10 Blocks, editor Brian Anderson extends his best wishes to all our listeners during the holiday season, reflects on a year of terrific guests, and more. . by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Keeping the Mentally Ill Out of Jails: joins City Journal associate editor to discuss how America's health-care system fails the mentally ill, and the steps that cities and states are taking to keep the mentally ill out of jail and get them into treatment. Urban... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Prescription Drugs and Price Controls: joins City Journal editor to discuss what the debate over prescription drugs gets wrong and the cost that government-imposed price controls could have on one of the world's most innovative industries.... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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The Case for Nuclear Power: joins City Journal senior editor to discuss the limitations of renewable energy and the need to expand nuclear technology as a source of clean and reliable electricity. For nearly four decades,... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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NYCHA: Public Housing in Crisis: City Journal contributing editor joins associate editor to discuss problems at the New York City Housing Authority. With some 400,000 residents, NYCHA is the nation's largest public housing system. In recent years, news... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Mounting Disorder in San Francisco: joins City Journal associate editor to discuss the deteriorating state of public order in San Francisco. The Bay Area's most densely populated and desirable neighborhoods are being destroyed by lawlessness and squalor. San... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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How Markets Shape Cities: Urbanist Alain Bertaud joins to discuss how urban planners and economists can improve city management. Bertaud's book argues that markets provide the indispensable mechanism for cities' growth. The book is a summation of what... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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How Trump Is Reshaping Federal Courts: joins City Journal editor to discuss President Trump's impact on the federal courts, the appointment of Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, and the diversity in conservative judicial philosophy emerging... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Bill de Blasio: Rhetoric and Reality: joins City Journal associate editor to discuss Mayor Bill de Blasio's State of the City address, his aspiration to run for president in 2020, and his attempts to position himself as a national progressive leader. "There's... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
30 min listen
China's Troubled Urban Future: joins to discuss China's urbanization, class tensions in Chinese cities, and the country's increasingly sophisticated population surveillance. Rapid migration from China's countryside to its cities began in 1980. Many of the rural... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
23 min listen
Reefer's Madness: joins to discuss expanding efforts to legalize recreational marijuana use, a movement helped along by extensive misinformation about the drug's supposed health benefits. This year, at least eight states are debating laws that would... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
31 min listen
The Once and Future Worker: joins City Journal editor to discuss his new book, . The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation, and reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
21 min listen
The Entrenched vs. the Newcomers: 2019 James Q. Wilson Lecture: discusses how the proliferation of unfair laws and regulations is walling off opportunity in America's greatest cities at the Manhattan Institute’s 2019 . We like to think of American cities as incubators of opportunity, and this has... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
39 min listen
Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution: joins to discuss his new book, . Magnet contends that Justice Thomas's originalist jurisprudence offers a path forward for recovering our nation's "lost Constitution" and restoring America as a free, self-governing nation made up... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
34 min listen
From "College Town" to Big City: joins City Journal associate editor to discuss how some big public universities are expanding their tech departments to major cities to maximize their economic impact—creating new political battles in their states. A... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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The Civil Society Awards: City Journal contributing editor joins associate editor to discuss the Manhattan Institute's , which recognize outstanding nonprofit leaders who develop solutions to social problems in their communities. History has... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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America’s Outdated Power Grid: joins to discuss last month's power blackout in Manhattan, California's self-inflicted energy crisis, and potential energy sources for the future. "As power outages go," Meigs , "the Broadway Blackout of 2019 was pretty modest."... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Theodore Dalrymple on Elite Medical Journals and the Criminal Underclass: Anthony Daniels (known to readers as ) joins to discuss Daniels’s quarter-century of writing for City Journal and his new book, . “Theodore Dalrymple” first appeared in the pages of City Journal in 1994... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Victor Davis Hanson on Trump: Hoover Institution fellow and award-winning historian joins the Manhattan Institute's to discuss the presidency of Donald Trump and Hanson's new book, . Hanson argues that our 45th president alone has the instinct and energy... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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Infrastructure Spending, Reconsidered: , director of Transportation for America, joins City Journal contributing editor to discuss the state of U.S. infrastructure and how federal spending could be used more effectively to improve safety and reduce fiscal waste. The... by City Journal's 10 Blocks
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The Future of Mobility

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Titles in the series (100)

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