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“
Manhattan Institute writers have been dynamiting
the conventional wisdom of ‘the intellectuals’
with regularity.”
Tom Wolfe, “The Manhattan Institute at 25”
“
If you had to pick one phrase to summarize the
cast of mind that informs City Journal,
it would be, ‘We can still do it.’ ”
David Brooks, “A Walker in City Journal”
“Taken
together, the Manhattan Institute’s books on race
and ethnicity raise a question for which, so far,
we have no generally accepted answer: Can people
live together decently without regard to skin
color or ethnic background?” James Q. Wilson,
“Race in America”
“[By
the mid-eighties] the formerly extreme tenets
of low top tax rates, low rates overall, and simplicity
had now become mainstream. And the Manhattan Institute
worked to keep them there.”
Robert L. Bartley and Amity Shlaes, “The Supply-Side
Revolution”
“Markets
work, morality matters: the Manhattan Institute
has spent a quarter-century restating these truths,
wrongly cast aside as irrelevant in the 1960s
and 1970s.”
Michael Barone, “The Urban Renaissance”
“Any
list of the Manhattan Institute’s accomplishments
must put near the top the long-term sponsorship
of two of the nation’s leading legal minds: Peter
Huber and Walter Olson. These two men have grappled
with a problem—abuses of the U.S. civil justice
system—even more deeply entrenched than welfare
dependency and crime.”
L. Gordon Crovitz, “Restoring the Rule of Law”
“When
some future historian chronicles… New York City’s
intellectual life during the last two decades
of the twentieth century, his first task
will be to explain why the policies that helped
transform the nation’s greatest metropolis were
hatched not by the professoriat… or in the editorial
pages of the New York Times, but rather
by the independent cadre of thinkers… associated
with the Manhattan Institute.”
Sam Tanenhaus, “A Laboratory For Change”
“
The Wriston Lectures have hosted… two Nobel laureates,
a billionaire businessman, a justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court, the National Security Advisor…
Yet some of the most memorable lectures have come
from people who have no authority other than the
power of their arguments: writers, teachers, and
the pastor of an inner-city church.”
David Frum, “The Wriston Lecture: A Venue
for Ideas”
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