Writer on Cities and Culture

Ken Hagerty

3 articles 2007–2008

Ken Hagerty contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2007 and 2008. His pieces explored topics related to urban policy and corporate culture, including repeated examinations of the concept of free cities.

Free Cities

April 8, 2008 · Ken Hagerty, Blog

THE END OF THE Cold War deprived our foreign aid system of its strategic underpinnings. No longer could official development assistance be justified as part of a global struggle between two great superpowers and their competing economic systems. Foreign aid became a more amorphous exercise,…

Free Cities

July 18, 2007 · Ken Hagerty, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Blog

THE DESPERATION THAT drives millions of illegal immigrants into this country will never subside as long as there are no jobs and no opportunities in their stagnant homeland economies. Fortunately, there is a way the United States could jump-start vibrant, non-corrupt, globalized economies inside…