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City Journal

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City Journal

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City Journal is a recurring publication in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between July 08, 2022 and February 27, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “https://www.city-journal.org/retaliatory-gang-violence”; “City Journal (quoted in Marginal Revolution) on the trend to bar scientists from accessing government datasets”; “12: City Journal ( quoted in Marginal Revolution ) on the trend to bar scientists from accessing government datasets”. It most often appears alongside California, China, Trump.

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  • Category: Publications
  • Mention count: 4
  • Issue count: 4
  • First seen: July 08, 2022
  • Last seen: February 27, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Highlights From The Comments On The 2020 Homicide Spike
July 08, 2022 · Original source
https://www.city-journal.org/retaliatory-gang-violence
Inline links: https://www.city-journal.org/retaliatory-gang-violence
Links For December 2022
December 28, 2022 · Original source
12: City Journal (quoted in Marginal Revolution) on the trend to bar scientists from accessing government datasets if their studies might get politically incorrect conclusions (obviously this isn’t how the policy’s proponents would describe it, they would probably say something about promoting equity and safety). Originally this was just about a few topics around race and IQ, but now it’s expanded to everything from genetic determinants of obesity to the way Alzheimers lowers IQ.
Inline links: quoted in Marginal Revolution, the trend to bar scientists from accessing government datasets if their studies might get politically incorrect conclusions, genetic determinants of obesity, the way Alzheimers lowers IQ
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February 03, 2025 · Original source
I bet Charter Cities Institute has already tried to reach out to the administration on this. You can see hints of where they might go in Mark Lutter’s piece in City Journal. As usual, he bangs the drum of “agglomeration effects” - new cities only prosper if there is some reason for them to exist. If you build a city on the median patch of federal land - a random desert - you’ll have an uphill battle to make anyone move there.
Inline links: Mark Lutter’s piece in City Journal.
Links For February 2025
February 27, 2025 · Original source
7: Oliver D. Smith is an ex-Nazi turned social justice warrior. His MO was (is?) creating Wikipedia and RationalWiki articles on various IQ researchers/bloggers that portray them in the worst possible light (both sites tried to ban him, but he was able to come back with various sock puppet accounts). More recently, he’s become . . .famous? . . . for a very impressive litigation campaign to prevent anyone from naming him or mentioning any of his activities; this sort of thing usually doesn’t work, but he was able to at least City Journal to take down their article about him. Most recently, an extremely anonymous person on a blog with no other articles has finally published the whole story - this site was down the past few times I tried to link it, apparently because Smith launched “a barrage of spurious DMCA claims” against Substack, but seems to be at least temporarily back now. Read it while you still can!
Inline links: take down their article about him, published the whole story