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For over 30 years, the Manhattan Institute has been an important force in shaping American political culture and developing ideas that foster economic choice and individual responsibility. We have supported and publicized research on our era's most challenging public policy issues: taxes, health care, energy, the legal system, policing, crime, homeland security, urban life, education, race, culture, and many others. Our work has won new respect for market-oriented policies and helped make reform a reality.

Located in New York City, the Manhattan Institute produces ideas that are both literally and figuratively outside the Beltway. We have cultivated a staff of senior fellows and writers whose provocative books, essays, reviews, interviews, speeches, and op-ed pieces communicate our message and influence the debate. These fellows work in the Institute's nine policy centers, which study and promote reform in areas ranging from health care, higher education, legal policy, and urban development to race relations, immigration, energy, and counterterrorism.

Our program of luncheon forums, conferences, and publications reaches a broad, diverse audience. As a result, our ideas are taken seriously—even by those who disagree with us. And our prescriptions are often put into practice. Some of the country's most innovative mayors, governors, and policymakers have acknowledged a debt to the Manhattan Institute, as have many influential writers, journalists, and authors.

From our founding, the Manhattan Institute has also supported books that drive policy discussion. We ensure that our authors meet the rigorous intellectual and editorial standards demanded by major publishers, and we energetically promote the books to the media, opinion leaders, and the general public. Our most successful books have opened new intellectual frontiers and given impetus to whole movements for political and social reform.

Most recently, David Gratzer and Regina Herzlinger received wide acclaim for their books articulating solutions to the problems confronting the U.S. health-care system in The Cure and Who Killed Health Care? Peter Huber's and Mark Mills's The Bottomless Well, which argues against energy-policy naysayers and shows that technology is making energy supplies inexhaustible, was one of Bill Gates's top five books for 2005. We can also point to the acclaimed landmark study of race in the United States, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible, by Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom; Walter Olson's provocative and much-discussed The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law Is Paralyzing the American Workplace; and such public-policy classics as Charles Murray's Losing Ground, Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare, and George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty.

Our quarterly, City Journal, is a cutting-edge magazine about culture, domestic policy, urban affairs, and civic life. Through subscriptions, citations, and reprints in a host of major newspapers across the country, City Journal commands the attention of opinion makers, political leaders, and all those who care about the American future. The magazine's elegantly designed website—which posts new stories and editorials every week, and now attracts millions of visits per year—has been particularly successful, answering in part the question that the Power Line blog has posed admiringly: "How is it possible for a quarterly magazine to seem the most timely publication in the country?" George Will might agree. "As the journalist enterprises multiply and the cacophony increases, a few publications of reliable excellence become increasingly important," he says. "The City Journal is at the top of the short list of those few."

Edited by Brian C. Anderson, City Journal boasts a stable of outstanding regular contributors, among them Theodore Dalrymple, Nicole Gelinas, Kay S. Hymowitz, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Steven Malanga, Judith Miller, and Sol Stern. To date, 17 compilations of the magazine's influential essays—on topics ranging from immigration to marriage to education to urban policy—have been released as books, including Mac Donald's The Burden of Bad Ideas and Malanga's The New New Left.

Our scholars and trustees have frequently received honors and awards for their work. Recent honorees include Bradley Prize winners Heather Mac Donald, Abigail Thernstrom, and Stephan Thernstrom; the late Walter Wriston, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and chairman emeritus Roger Hertog, recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

Looking toward the future, the Manhattan Institute launched the Young Leaders Circle in January 2007, to provide a forum for young professionals in the New York metropolitan area interested in free-market ideas and public policy. The circle already has over 100 members, who hear such leading thinkers as David Brooks, Shelby Steele, William Kristol, and Steve Forbes discuss the pressing issues of the day in an evening lecture and cocktail party series.

Combining intellectual seriousness and practical wisdom with intelligent marketing and focused advocacy, the Manhattan Institute has achieved a reputation not only for effectiveness, but also for efficient use of its resources. Through a continuing emphasis on quality, we hope to sustain and augment our record of success.

SELECT ARTICLES:

• You Get What You Pay For by James Piereson, Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2004
• Ideas Matter New York Post, editorial, January 30, 2003
• Revolutionaries: Tom Wolfe profiles the Manhattan Institute, New York Post, January 30, 2003
• Intellectual Stock Picking by James Traub, The New Yorker, February 7, 1994
  

SELECT FILMS:

• 1st Preventers: A conversation on the role of law enforcement in the war of terror
  with William Bratton & James Q. Wilson
  • Winner of Two Awards at the Chicago International Film Festival
  • Winner of an Award at the Houston International Film Festival
  • Winner of an American Business Award
  
• A Conversation on Energy Policy
  with Steve Forbes & Peter Huber
• MI 25th Anniversary Video
  Featuring: Michael Barone, US News & World Report; David Brooks, New York Times; Rudolph W. Giuliani, former mayor of New York City; Peggy Noonan, Trustee, Manhattan Institute, Wall Street Journal; Thomas Sowell, Hoover Institution; John Stossel, ABC News 20/20; Sam Tanenhaus, New York Times Book Review
  

AWARDS:

• Myron Magnet - 2008 National Humanities Award
• Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom - 2007 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual achievement, 2007 Fordham Prizes for Excellence in Education
• Heather Mac Donald - 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement
• Walter Wriston, Trustee - Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Roger Hertog, Trustee - 2007 National Humanities Award
• Walter Olson - 1998 Atlas Foundation Award

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