The Atlantic is running a special report on the changing national landscape.
Saving the City: An Interview with Brian Anderson
1) In the autumn of 1990, City Journal published its first issue. Its letter from the editors spoke of the “intolerable conditions” suffered by New Yorkers, a generation of residents who’d never known anything better, and a desire “to focus some of the immense ingenuity and energy which flows to New York on making the city livable once again.”
All these years later, it is difficult to imagine that bygone New York City. Take us back to the bad old days. How was life different? What particular ills inspired the magazine’s launch? And how did it go from an idea to a bundle of articles produced each quarter?
