Manhattan Institute For Policy Research
At an education-themed event today hosted by the Manhattan Institute featuring Jeb Bush and Michael Bloomberg, something happened. There's probably more to say. But despite the fact that the event was on the mayor's public schedule, and that the Manhattan Institute called around to invite reporters to watch, the press wasn't actually welcome. After the mayor arrived, employees of the Union Club, where the event was held, began purging the room, plucking reporters from their... READ MORE»
Rupert Murdoch thinks New York State is headed for a crisis, he explained during a speech last night at Cipriani, where he and former Mayor Ed Koch were honored by the conservative Manhattan Institute. Murdoch said that the Manhattan Institute's ideas about governance had helped improve public policy. “But," he said, "I think the storm clouds are threatening again. "Not to be too pessimistic tonight, but the crisis has already begun.” The problems, according to... READ MORE»
By | December 4, 2006 | 6:12 am
More on the potential conflict between the corporate watchdog role Eliot Spitzer has played for the last eight years and the economic cheerleader role he's about to take on: Here's a clip of Spitzer wearing his attorney general hat, defending the tough corporate accountability rules that Congress passed in the wake of his Wall Street investigations. "When they limit our capacity to prosecute, they are doing something egregious and will harm investors across... READ MORE»
By | November 29, 2006 | 6:47 am
Another sign the debate over congestion pricing for auto-heavy areas, if not congestion pricing itself, is coming our way: The Manhattan Institute (whom one would think would be against these things) is holding a breakfast next Thursday on the topic. And it seems like toll-foe David Weprin will be outnumbered. - Matthew Schuerman... READ MORE»
By | November 14, 2006 | 12:00 pm
Steve Malanga, senior fellow at Giuliani's preferred think tank, the Manhattan Institute, thinks that Rudy Giuliani's formation of a exploratory committee for president was as good as an official declaration. Almost. "Having talked to some of the people in Rudy's administration, I think they give it up to 90 percent chance that he will run," said Malanga. "The odds seem to be in favor of it." Malanga, along with a number of other... READ MORE»
Rudolph Giuliani has repeatedly extended the hand of friendship to Christian conservatives in recent... READ MORE»
By | September 6, 2006 | 6:19 am
Yesterday, The New Republic introduced its readers to The Open University, its "first-of-its-kind blog, featuring America's top academics on today's top stories." As promised, there are lots of big-name professor types--the University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein, Harvard's Steven Pinker--and they've already taken on such weighty topics as "ideological amplification" and the demise of the HBO series "Deadwood." Also among the contributors is deposed Harvard president Lawrence Summers, who ran afoul of female academics... READ MORE»
By | March 23, 2006 | 5:29 am
Bill Weld had his audition for the theoretically friendly, in fact polite but unenthusiastic, audience at a Crains New York Business breakfast at the Sheraton this morning. On the substance, the most striking point was his apparent retreat from his sweeping opposition to emininent domain at the Manhattan Institute not long ago. There, he framed his opposition to the Kelo decision as broad, and not limited to its endorsement of the role of... READ MORE»
By | January 11, 2006 | 11:06 am
The Manhattan Institute has a well-produced indictment of Albany out today, and a new Web site to go with it. Their bottom line is that the state taxes and spends too much, and the targets for blame are "the special interests," identified as teachers unions, public authorities, public employees, public "servants," and the plaintiffs' bar. It's hard to argue that any of those groups don't have a great deal of power over Albany, but it seems... READ MORE»
By | December 15, 2005 | 1:08 pm
In a New York Sun article on Williamsburg’s Schaefer Landing, which will have 210 condos and 140 low-income apartments once it is finished next year, Manhattan Institute scholar Julia Vitullo-Martin asks if the rich will want to live next to the poor. (Why is that question never asked the other way around?) The thing is, people are already doing it all around town: about 30 buildings, mostly in Manhattan, have been financed by... READ MORE»
New York clearly demonstrated its confidence in Mayor Michael Bloomberg by handing him an overwhelmi... READ MORE»
New York clearly demonstrated its confidence in Mayor Michael Bloomberg by handing him an overwhelmi... READ MORE»
By | October 25, 2005 | 10:09 am
The folks over at the liberal Drum Major Institute seem to have enjoyed the Times's story today on the Manhattan Institute's waning local influence, and add their own slap: "Certainly the Manhattan Institute has sensed a political opportunity to stir up xenophobia in the absence of contributing to a meaningful conversation about immigration policy in this country in this country. Maybe that's why Mayor Bloomberg doesn't listen to them. The scarier question for thoughtful Americans... READ MORE»
By | July 6, 2005 | 9:20 am
I'd sort of expected the free-speech conservatives over at the Manhattan Institute to appreciate how the logic of Steve Minarik's attack on the Drum Major Institute threatens them. Minarik's underlying point is that think tanks are arms of political campaigns, or movements, and thus should be regulated. And the conservative think tank's motto is "turning ideas into influence;" that sounds indictable by Minarik's argument. But partisan loyalties seem to be trumping ideological consistency in this case: "We... READ MORE»
By | May 26, 2005 | 7:08 am
We suspect you'll be hearing a lot about Fred Siegel's new Rudy book, which we mentioned in our story this week. He's reading from it today at a Manhattan Institute event, and we suspect that's just the start of the kind of media blitz anything remotely connected to America's Mayor inspires. Anyway, Siegel has a website, where you can see the eerie yellow cover art and get a taste of Siegel's argument, which includes some... READ MORE»
