Brian Anderson

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

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

@beautyinnis @hannahcwiley @SophiaBollag We do!

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

We have an incoming United States Congressman who volunteered for an Al Qaeda front group and testified as a defense witness for a jihadist convicted in the plots tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

This man is a fifth columnist. His holding office in the United States government is exceptionally dangerous.

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: We spent weeks in Napa Valley investigating Gavin Newsom's wine empire. According to a whistleblower, the operation is built on undocumented migrant labor, in violation of the law.

Illegal aliens pick the grapes—and Newsom sells the wine for up to $7,000 a bottle.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

City Journal spent weeks in Napa Valley investigating the company that manages Gavin Newsom’s Oso Vineyard. PlumpJack, the wine business Newsom founded, bought Oso in 2022 for $14.5 million. It contracts Renteria Vineyard Management to run the field operations. RVM has a record of wage-and-hour violations, including a 2022 Labor Department finding involving 45 employees, and a former employee told our reporters that about 80 percent of its workers were in the country illegally. RVM does not appear in the federal E-Verify database.

(When a source phoned RVM in Spanish, said he had no green card or Social Security number, and asked about work, the employee took his number and said a manager would follow up.)

Newsom’s spokesman says the governor placed his business interests in a blind trust in 2019 and has no involvement in PlumpJack's operations or management. PlumpJack says it expects all vendors to comply with the law. RVM did not respond to our request for comment.

Read the full investigation by @christopherrufo, @rk_thorpe, and @kennethschrupp:

https://t.co/ZZDkfRgXR2

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Voters angry about prices still rejected the “abundance” agenda on Tuesday: California's Prop 45 lost by ten points, and Massachusetts’ starter-home measure narrowly failed. @christianbrits with some thoughts here on what this means for the agenda’s future. https://t.co/uG5AiRMrMz

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Between 2022 and 2025, median net worth rose 37 percent for Americans 75 and older and fell 23 percent for those under 35. @joelkotkin takes the complaints of younger Americans about this situation seriously. But confiscation would backfire, he believes; the better path is a generational truce and more abundant housing. https://t.co/8PdEtXBOyA

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Yale is the only Ivy League college to make it in the top 10 of the 2026 City Journal College Rankings. Sounds like they are finally starting to course correct after more than a decade of lunacy: https://t.co/NWXrCCEGwH

[Elise Stefanik @EliseStefanik]

Must read in the movement to save higher education -

Check out @CityJournal 2026 College Rankings 👇

[MG @meaghan_garvey]

RIP to the great Gary Fisketjon — the most important editor of American fiction in the last 50 years, who out-partied me, aged 71, on one memorable evening in New Orleans last year ♥︎

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

New from one of my favorite contemporary writers

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

UT Austin, Florida, and Notre Dame lead City Journal’s 2026 College Rankings. Our rankings award no points for reputation or selectivity. The key question is what colleges actually do for students in terms of educational quality, student life, and outcomes —not how hard they are to get into. Kevin Wallsten introduces the second season of our rankings here: https://t.co/TMbxAz6n5d

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Aron is one of the heroes of thr twentieth century and a thinker whose work remains incredibly relevant in the twenty-first century

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Raymond Aron a passé sa vie à combattre, presque seul, ceux qui ont construit le socle intellectuel qu'on subit encore aujourd'hui.

Rappelez-vous la bataille.

D'un côté, Sartre. Celui qui rentre de Moscou en 1954 pour expliquer que la liberté de critique y est totale. Celui qui écrit que tout anticommuniste est un chien. Celui dont toute une génération répétait le slogan : mieux vaut avoir tort avec Sartre que raison avec Aron.

Camus publie L'Homme révolté en 1951. Il ose dire qu'aucun lendemain qui chante ne justifie les camps et la terreur. Sartre le fait exécuter dans Les Temps modernes. Rupture définitive. Camus devient le paria de la gauche intellectuelle.

Aron publie L'Opium des intellectuels en 1955. Il démonte la religion marxiste pièce par pièce. Il a raison sur l'URSS, raison sur Mao, raison sur le totalitarisme. Pendant trente ans, on le traite de laquais de la bourgeoisie.

Puis Foucault prend le relais. Tout devient pouvoir, tout devient oppression, la vérité elle-même devient suspecte. En 1978, il part en Iran et s'enthousiasme pour la révolution de Khomeini.

Et puis il y a le tabou ultime. Celui qu'ils préféreraient que vous oubliiez.

Janvier 1977. Le Monde, puis Libération, publient une tribune pour défendre trois hommes poursuivis pour des relations sexuelles avec des mineurs de moins de 15 ans. Parmi les signataires cités : Sartre, Beauvoir, Barthes, Deleuze, Guattari, Glucksmann, Kouchner, Jack Lang. Foucault signe la pétition suivante, adressée au Parlement. Libération, le journal cofondé par Sartre, ouvre ses pages aux militants pédophiles, publie des petites annonces, et en 1979 une nouvelle pétition pour défendre un homme arrêté pour des relations avec des fillettes de 6 à 12 ans.

Ce n'était pas une dérive marginale. C'était le cœur battant de l'intelligentsia. Refuser de signer, c'était risquer d'être exclu du club.

Et aujourd'hui ? Un Jack Lang qui lâche que « c'était une connerie ». Un mea culpa de Libé tous les vingt ans. Un Matzneff qui racontait ses actes dans ses livres et paradait chez Pivot, protégé pendant des décennies par le milieu. Personne, ou presque, n'a jamais rendu de comptes.

Voilà la génération qui a façonné l'école, l'université, les médias, la culture et une partie de la magistrature pendant cinquante ans. Relativisme, haine de soi, culte de la déconstruction, mépris du réel au nom du camp du bien.

Ce qu'on est en train de vivre, c'est la phase de nécrose finale de cette génération d'intellectuels qui a tout détruit. L'édifice pourrit de l'intérieur parce qu'il n'a jamais reposé sur le réel.

Et pendant que leur monde s'effondre, les vrais héros remontent à la surface. Camus. Aron. Ceux qui avaient raison trop tôt, seuls contre tous, et qui l'ont payé de leur réputation.

Aron et Camus étaient des héros. Sartre et Foucault étaient des ordures.

Il est temps de le dire.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

A wonderful honor for one of most impressive new voices in public debate

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

I am deeply grateful and honored to receive the Bernard Lewis Prize 2026.

My heartfelt thanks to the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

Historic

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

@Scholars_Stage Didn’t know that! It is a great essay

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

@JCAndersonNYC Galloway seems sociopathic

[Daniel Di Martino @DanielDiMartino]

None of the "Christians" who attack and/or mock Harmeet are doing the Lord any favors.

Do you think this is how we can reach out to people who believe differently from us?

We end each mass with "Glorify the Lord by your life" or "announce the Gospel of the Lord." Do that.

[eburke @JamesWHankins1]

If you think woke is dead, think again. "“ . . . . Anyone who feels unsafe because a nineteenth-century opera does not conform to his worldview has fallen deep into the abyss of narcissism and hysteria. And anyone who capitulates to such narcissism belongs nowhere near music or art.”
https://t.co/Brxw7gxnum

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

My husband watched me pray in our Sikh faith at the RNC — and one of our last text messages before he died a couple of weeks later was telling me
he was so proud of me. He was supposed to be there, but he was also dying from two serious illnesses, and he could not make it at the last minute. Our medical staff at home took care of him while he watched me pray in our faith tradition -/ just as we did at home daily over each meal.

All you trash who have denigrated my prayer to the ONE GOD many faiths believe in, deeply hurt me for the last two years, but I could not comment back because I was part of a campaign and then confirmation -/ administration. It’s over. I won’t be silent any longer.

Go read the First Amendment and my extensive record on behalf of ALL people of faith in America. For 34 years. And then let’s measure our respective records on religious liberty. I welcome all comers who think they can prove they did more than I did for ALL people of faith in this country. There are none. I intend to keep fighting for ALL people of faith in America for the rest of my life. But I won’t hide my own faith for one second. It’s protected by our Constitution.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

As my colleague @danielgolliher observes, one-party rule has turned New York into a playground for special interests, and taxes keep going up while services stagnate (or decay). A rebuilt state GOP that puts New York first—focused on growth, affordability, livability, competence, and moral character—is crucial for the future of the state and city alike.
https://t.co/jWXGarlVnA