Brian Anderson

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

[Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: Honduran drug gangs have taken over the streets of San Francisco. We spent three nights documenting "the Hondos," who have cornered the market for fentanyl and meth—and who will slash you with a machete if you oppose them.

[City Journal @CityJournal]

NEW: A foreign drug gang has taken over an entire neighborhood in downtown San Francisco and turned it into an open-air drug market.

City Journal reporters spent 3 days and nights in the Tenderloin, and what they discovered is shocking.

In the Tenderloin, the Hondos rule.

[Manhattan Institute @ManhattanInst]

“Punish crime. End of story.”

Lefty Tech Rag Panics As Manhattan Institute Pivots From Killing DEI To Crushing NGO-Funded Riots

@zerohedge @TylerDurden https://t.co/ecTelIW0ru

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Progressive San Francisco has ceded control of streets to Honduran fentanyl crews. With no immigration enforcement and repeat offenders quickly released, the result has been machete attacks and human misery, with record OD deaths. It’s time to end the policies enabling this chaos. Read Rufo, Thorpe, and Choe: https://t.co/AP7TvwEUmo

[Escuela Austriaca de Economía 🇦🇷 @DiegoMac227]

¿Por qué los intelectuales odian el capitalismo? - Jesús Huerta de Soto

Bertrand de Jouvenel, en su análisis sobre la relación entre los intelectuales y el capitalismo, sostiene que muchos de ellos tienden a rechazar el sistema capitalista debido a su naturaleza impersonal y a la percepción de que promueve desigualdades.

De Jouvenel argumenta que este rechazo se origina en el deseo de los intelectuales de tener un papel central en la sociedad, algo que el capitalismo no necesariamente les garantiza. Jesús Huerta de Soto amplía esta crítica al señalar que el odio de los intelectuales hacia el capitalismo se fundamenta en cuatro factores: ignorancia, soberbia, resentimiento y envidia. La ignorancia se manifiesta en una falta de comprensión de cómo el capitalismo fomenta el bienestar general; la soberbia, en una actitud de superioridad moral frente al mercado; el resentimiento, por no ser reconocidos como actores clave en el sistema; y la envidia, hacia quienes prosperan bajo un modelo que privilegia el mérito y la innovación.

Estas críticas reflejan un profundo desacuerdo con los principios de la economía de mercado, que valora la descentralización y la competencia, en contraposición al control centralizado que muchos intelectuales prefieren.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

@AaronBastani @Geiger_Capital This essay from over a decade ago by Guy Sorman reflects on Japanese demographics (which put the country on the road to extinction) but also its cultural cohesion. https://t.co/JBCl74ADEk

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

@Jon_Hartley_ @StanfordEcon @I_Am_NickBloom @DuffieDarrell @JohnHCochrane @HannoLustig @HooverInst Congratulations Jon!

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Sociologist Robert Nisbet on the effects of egalitarianism:

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

This @thestustustudio story is complicated, but the pay-off is that there might be a Lenin-style vanguard party trying to take over the entire American far Left?

For those who don't know: the American radical protest movement—think fire bombs, not just marches—is largely funded by two millionaires. One is Fergie Chambers, the American-born, Tunisia-based heir to the Cox fortune and self-identified communist. The other is telecom billionaire Neville Roy Singham, also American but a Shanghai-based member of the Chinese Communist Party.

A few weeks ago, Chambers lit into Singham on social media. According to Chambers, Singham has been trying to aggressively muscle into any protest activity on the ostensibly decentralized radical left. Singham's goal, in Chambers's telling, is to place a diffuse, anarchistic movement under the iron rule of his main organizing vehicle, the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

I've always thought of the PSL as a sort of kooky group that posters on campuses. But it sort of seems like they're the vanguard party of Singham's planned communist revolution?

And, with Singham abroad and beyond the reach of law enforcement, they're also the perfect place for lawmakers concerned about far-left radicalism to start investigating...

https://t.co/DCdTpy38VN

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Oh come on.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: California officials warn final LA mayoral election results could take weeks, with only 54% of votes counted.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Make Britain Great Again, says Tom Ough, in his superb City Journal debut.
Richard Burton, the remarkable adventurer, spy, and polymath, embodied the raw agency of Victorian Britain, Ough writes in a vivid narrative on Burton’s life. Burton charted the unknown and bent the world to his formidable will. Today’s Britain,
by contrast, is a nation of slow-moving bureaucrats and “managed decline,” paralyzed by supranational courts, NIMBYs, and demographic surrender.
Britain traded parliamentary sovereignty and national ambition for governs safety nets and internationalist nostrums. The result has been stagnation, mass immigration against public will, and a growing sense of political and cultural futility.
High-agency nations like Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore took charge of their destiny, and Britain could learn some lessons. Britain still has the talent, the territories, and the rich history, Ough believes, but it’s past time to reduce the bureaucracy, liberalize planning (more housing now!), unleash energy abundance, and pursue bold frontiers.
Relearn the Burton spirit: “Do what thy manhood bids thee do.”
Britain can be great again—if it chooses.
Read: https://t.co/BciPKM8aTH

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

He travelled to Bosnia where he volunteered for an Al Qaeda offshoot.

Congress would be within its rights not to seat him.

Our enemies should have no expectation they can infiltrate us from within.

[Jesse Arm @Jesse_Leg]

If Graham Platner, James Talarico, and Hasan Piker represent the best and brightest of the Democratic Party's rising stars, I think Republicans have a lot to feel good about for the foreseeable future.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

We've allowed this to happen. It is all self-inflicted. It never ends well.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Remains true!

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“How many hasty, immature, superficial, and misleading judgments are expressed every day [in the press], confusing readers, without any verification.”

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

Sanders’ proposal to seize 50 percent equity from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI for a federal “sovereign wealth fund” is a bad idea. These firms risked billions in private capital to turn public-domain data into frontier breakthroughs. Sanders-style confiscation would kill the incentive structure that built American AI dominance, and also install political appointees on corporate boards (as one sees in China), and thus guarantee politicized governance, and set a precedent for nationalizing any company/industry that uses “collective knowledge.”

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Bernie Sanders: I will soon be introducing a bill to give the public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America.

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

NY’s Good Cause Eviction law was sold as tenant protection against “runaway” rents. Instead, it’s turning small landlords into automatic annual hikers—maxing out at the legal limit rather than raising rents sparingly. Good intentions, bad result. https://t.co/U1GJzYuBYj

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

@mcbyrne What

[Brian Anderson @BrianAcity]

This point can’t be repeated enough: urban crime and disorder are a choice, not some inevitable emanation of social conditions.

[Heather Mac Donald @HMDatMI]

Urban crime and disorder are a choice.

We should not, and do not, have to live with routine assaults by mentally ill vagrants, with rampant shoplifting, with squalid street colonies. As we are seeing with the current wave of youth mobs, the toleration of lawlessness leads to more lawlessness.

Policing works, a lesson that we will have to learn again to reclaim cities from the apologists for crime (I’m looking at you, Los Angeles residents).

I discuss the “teen takeover” phenomenon on @realDailyWire's Morning Wire: