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Brian Anderson

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Editor of City Journal, publication of the Manhattan Institute. Opinions my own.

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Michel Lara@VeraCausa9·
Listening now to 'Alfie', one of the best Jazz movie soundtracks (1966). A composition by Sonny Rollins (tenor sax) with Kenny Burrell on guitar & orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson. Here's the cool track: 'Alfie's Theme Differently' Enjoy!
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Sara@NahanniFinanci1·
Curious how @ArmandDAngour managed to get Satoshi Nakamoto to provide a blurb for his book!?
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Brian Anderson@BrianAcity·
We’ve known for generations how to teach reading: systematic phonics. The National Reading Panel’s 2000 review of 100,000 studies proved it again, comprehensively—phonics beats “balanced literacy” and other misguided approaches. Yet ideology has left countless kids illiterate, despite billions of dollars spent. city-journal.org/article/hooked…
rebelEducator@rebelEducator

America’s literacy problem is not a funding problem, nor is it a problem of not knowing how to teach kids to read

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Stu Smith@thestustustudio·
🚨 Hasan Names Singham, PSL, ANSWER, and Code Pink in One Breath On stream today, Hasan Piker discussed the reported Treasury scrutiny and said the broader target is “probably Singham” and “his operation,” naming PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and “anything that he has ever financed.” He then acknowledged that Roy Singham lives in China and has been “a funding vehicle” for political movements and activism in the United States. That is exactly why this matters. This was never just about one influencer’s Cuba trip. It is about the Singham-linked ecosystem, the groups it funds, the delegations it supports, and the political operations built around them. Hasan didn’t refute the network. He mapped it.
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Brian Anderson@BrianAcity·
Sharo piece. I wrote about Illich at length a while back. Modern technological systems become dangerous, Illich maintained, when they cease functioning as tools that extend human capacities and instead reorganize society in ways that foster dependence and alienation. The problem is not innovation as such, in other words, but the rise of systems that absorb individuals into vast networks managed by experts, eroding local knowledge and self-government. firstthings.com/the-genius-of-…
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Compact@compactmag·
“Noncommittal endorsement of Magnifica Humanitas may allow secular AI skeptics to put off clarifying their own answers to the vital questions the encyclical addresses.” Read Geoff Shullenberger’s @g_shullenberger piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/the-th…
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Rafael A. Mangual
Rafael A. Mangual@Rafa_Mangual·
By “changed our city forever,” he means drove Minneapolis (among other cities) into a collective state of psychosis causing leaders to dismantle the barriers that stood between order and chaos, leading to an extended crime spree that disproportionately harmed precisely the communities the dismantling was supposed to help.
Mayor Jacob Frey@MayorFrey

Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.   That moment changed our city forever.

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Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson@robkhenderson·
"I am not so naive as to suppose that the truth will always or invariably set people free, but I do believe it is only the truth that could ever set them free." —Theodore Dalrymple Read my foreword to Dalrymple's most famous book here: robkhenderson.com/p/without-pity…
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Margot Cleveland
Margot Cleveland@ProfMJCleveland·
By 1900, the United States had achieved a 90% literacy rate largely by using McGuffey Readers in one-room schoolhouses.  But, yeah, NYC’s problem is it’s not spending enough money.
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David Sacks
David Sacks@DavidSacks·
The Pope rightly warns that AI must serve human dignity, not become a tool of domination or exclusion. But if we hand governments sweeping power over AI development in the name of safety, how do we prevent it from being used to censor, surveil, and control citizens — as Orwell foretold in 1984? This is the real alignment problem. “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.” Who will guard the guardians? “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The oldest questions of human nature and authority don’t disappear in the AI age. They become newly relevant.
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Brian Anderson@BrianAcity·
This is an exciting new initiative in cultural transformation
Patrick Collison@patrickc

Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: newaesthetics.art/grants. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on the whole thing: • Though there are clearly selection dynamics afoot, figuring out some route beyond the current aesthetic moment seems to be of wider interest in the art community than I would have guessed. Many applicants described their dissatisfaction with the status quo, some in strong terms. We had to close applications after a few weeks because there were so many. • It's too early to call it, but it seems that both beauty as an unapologetic goal (contra much that is in modernist and contemporary approaches), and ways to channel pre-modern styles into something new for the present era, are of growing interest. • The awards made me reflect on the perhaps obvious issue of how hard it must be for an artist to persistently do something new: schools, galleries, buyers, etc., all have structurally embedded preferences as well. These individual awards made me wonder what form supporting new clusters could take. • Architecture seems to me like the discipline most ripe for new ideas. One correspondent observed: "American architects are somewhat constrained by the association with the academy, in addition to the well known regulation issues. There is a tendency to overthink things so that the designs are formally interesting to someone deep in the conversation, but lacking poetry and magic. There are more firms in Europe, South America and beyond that “just do things” (especially in places where it is easier to build)." This was evident in the submissions. • AI seems to be making people rethink things in a quite fundamental way, just as urbanization/industrialization/popularization of photography did at the end of the 19th century. For some that will mean interesting new forms of AI-augmented art, but the effects of the rethinking will likely be wider. • Arts funding is clearly as precarious and scarce as ever. That's unfortunate, but it probably also means that individual actors can have meaningful impact, and I encourage others to get involved if interested. • There's a lot to know that is not written down, and I'm very grateful to those who have helped and advised me along the way.

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Brian Anderson@BrianAcity·
New York’s murder and shooting declines are real, but nearly 30,000 felony assaults last year—the most in many years—point to a deeper disorder problem: casual violence intensifying as police presence and the law’s moral authority recede. Charles Fain Lehman explains here… city-journal.org/article/new-yo…
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Half of trans-identifying kids do not “try to commit suicide.” The figure comes from The Trevor Project’s annual online surveys—self-selected samples recruited via activist networks, with no clinical verification, high dropout rates, and no controls for comorbidities like autism, trauma, or depression etc.
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_

Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport. It’s like, no we’re not”

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Brian Anderson@BrianAcity·
On Memorial Day, we should honor the dead not by sentiment alone but by remembering that we must preserve what they died to defend. Dan McCarthy rightly directs us to the lessons of Washington’s Farewell: that ordered liberty depends on constitutional fidelity and the moral habits of self-government. dailysignal.com/2026/05/24/was…
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm·
The Economist on the U.S. economy’s consistent growth outperformance relative to other advanced countries: “America’s outperformance began decades ago, but in the 2020s it has become vast. And it is likely to last. The latest IMF forecasts show American growth besting the rest all the way to 2030 and beyond…. Many of America’s advantages are hard to emulate. The country’s continental scale, single language, natural-resource wealth and the fiscal space that comes from issuing the world’s safe asset give it a unique economic advantage over Europe… But America also shows just how much other rich countries are failing to live up to their economic potential.” #economy @EconUS @TheEconomist
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