Winter 2025

Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-first Century by Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom University Press of Kansas, 2001, 349 pp., $15.95 Here is a simple but important fact: approximately three-quarters of Americans live in metropolitan areas. Of these, …

In a February 1993 New York Times op-ed article, a municipal bond analyst for a major security rating service argued that the cure for New York City’s fiscal problems was to force it into bankruptcy and then to massively privatize …