City Journal

Conservative, urban policy. City Journal is the quarterly of the Manhattan Institute, first published in 1990, and it makes the right's case where most of the country actually lives: policing, schools, housing, homelessness and the cost of running a city. Choose it for conservatism argued from street-level evidence rather than national culture-war themes, with reporting that liberal city readers can test against their own neighborhoods. Its arts, architecture and culture pieces add range to a magazine best known for policy.