Name: Elite Insecurity by City Journal's 10 Blocks
Duration: 19 min 28 s
Description: Martin Gurri joins Brian Anderson to discuss the loosening elite grip on power, the fractured media landscape, and information flows in a world of democratic contestation.

Martin Gurri joins Brian Anderson to discuss the loosening elite grip on power, the fractured media landscape, and information flows in a world of democratic contestation.

Elite Insecurity

Martin Gurri joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss how we can transcend the pettiness and corruption of our current political moment.

The Will to Liberty

M. Nolan Gray joins Jordan McGillis to discuss the controversial plan to install an aerial transit system connecting Los Angeles’s Dodger Stadium to the city.

Gondola Dodgers

Rob Montz joins John Tierney to discuss his documentary "It Wasn't Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump."

Chaos Coordinators

Jay has assembled a little celebration of spring: songs, arias, a symphony, a sonata. Who doesn’t want to sing spring?

Argento, “Spring,” from “Six Elizabethan Songs”
Sinding, “Rustle of Spring”
Wagner, “Du bist der Lenz,” from “Die Walküre”
Beethoven, “Spring” Sonata, Rondo
Strauss, “Herr Lenz”
Saint-Saëns, “Printemps qui commence,” from “Samson et Dalila”
Schumann, “Er ist’s”
Hoiby, “Always It’s Spring”
Wolf, “Er ist’s”
Schumann, “Spring” Symphony, first movement
Warlock, “Pretty Ring Time”

Music for a While #87: Spring forward

The Friends of The New Criterion recently gathered for an evening in celebration of Peter Vertacnik, whose “The Nature of Things Fragile” won the magazine’s twenty-third poetry prize. Listen to hear Peter read a number of poems from this new collection.

Peter Vertacnik reads from “The Nature of Things Fragile”

Alexandra Hudson joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss her book The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves.

Cultivating Civility

Naomi Schaefer Riley joins Brian C. Anderson to discuss the impact of drug use and decriminalization on children.

Parenting Under the Influence

In this episode, Jay begins with a shout—“Carolina Shout,” the classic jazz number by James P. Johnson. There are songs by Schumann, Puccini, and Porter (Cole). There are piano preludes—starter pieces by their composers. At the end, there is a sunburst of calypso. Enjoy this smorgasbord.

Johnson, James P., “Carolina Shout”

Schumann, “Röseleine, Röseleine!”

Bonds, Margaret, “Young Love in Spring”

Szymanowski, Prelude in E-flat minor, Op. 1, No. 8

Gorecki, Prelude, Op. 1, No. 4

Puccini, “Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso,” from “La rondine”

Puccini, “Chi il bel sogno,” from “La rondine”

Young, Victor, arr., Evans, Bill, “When I Fall in Love”

Porter, Cole, “Don’t Fence Me In”

Tanker, André, arr., Shaw, Theron, “Morena Osha”

Music for a While #88: Shout it out

Jay Donde joins Jordan McGillis to discuss politics and public safety in the City by the Bay.

San Francisco Conservatives

Ryan Bourne joins Jordan McGillis to discuss his book The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy.

Elite Insecurity

City Journal's 10 Blocks

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