California Dreaming
March 17, 2014 · Magazine, Books and Arts
Beginning in 1990, the Manhattan Institute’s estimable quarterly City Journal helped restore safety and order to Dinkins-era New York. Many had given up on the Big Apple—recall its hopeless depiction in Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)—but under editor Myron Magnet, CJ doggedly…