If you haven't come across City Journal yet, you must check it out, and not merely because I have a commentary just posted today in their current online edition. City Journal is a print quarterly of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute. It has been called "the best magazine in America" by Peggy Noonan, and "the bible of the new urbanism" by the Daily Telegraph. (More background on the publication here). I urge you to click on over to the City Journal main page where you can read articles from the Autumn 2005 edition on systemic dysfunction in New Orleans; the role of Mexican consulates in aiding and abetting illegal immigration; the Supreme Court's eminent domain ruling; Theodore Dalrymple's "The Suicide Bombers Among Us;" and Stephen Malanga's, "The Conspiracy Against The Taxpayer: Why Public Servants Live Better Than The Rest Of Us."

City Journal is an indispensable source for anyone interested in combatting the insidious liberal orthodoxy which tends to permeate America's cities, many of its state capitals, and much of its media. One more thing City Journal is doing right (and daily newspapers in Seattle and elsewhere should take the hint) is providing prominent links to blog posts which link to, and comment upon, their articles. (You'll see their links to specific blog posts, from bloggers across the country, in the far right hand column of the City Journal main page).

My own City Journal contribution today is an "Eye On The News" commentary, titled "Thugs On Parade: Why Do White Liberals Accept The "Gangsta" Persona As a Perfectly Legitimate Expression of Black Culture?"

TECHNORATI TAGS: CITY JOURNAL, CONSERVATIVES, BLOGS, THUG LIFE

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Chaz Hill, at the piquant blog Dustbury, has more.

Posted by Matt Rosenberg at November 10, 2005 12:56 PM