Join us for "City Journal in California: Resisting Californication" discussion on March 9 at 6:00 PM.


MANHATTAN INSTITUTE INVITES YOU TO A DISCUSSION

City Journal in California: Resisting Californication

Thursday, March 9, 2023

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Santa Monica Proper Hotel
700 Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Registration: $75.00

Throughout its history, California has stood as a beacon of opportunity and a paragon of cultural influence. The state once symbolized the dreams and desires of millions of Americans and migrants around the world. But even as ill-considered public policies hurt its economy and drive people away, the Golden State hasn’t lost its power to set society-wide trends. Lawmakers and advocates in the state have fashioned a new “California model”—a cultural politics oriented around group-based patronage schemes, radical race and gender ideologies, and tolerance of antisocial behavior. Is California’s vision set to go national? And what would that mean for the United States?

Please join us in Santa Monica for a panel discussion moderated by City Journal editor Brian Anderson and featuring two authors from City Journal’s new special issue, “Can California Be Golden Again?” Christopher Rufo will talk about the state’s identitarian agenda in public institutions, including a new ethnic-studies curriculum whose excesses he’s chronicled at length, and how to fight back against it. Abigail Shrier will address how the state’s policies, including the decriminalization of prostitution, are harming young women, and, as her groundbreaking reporting in City Journal reveals, turning the Golden State into the wrong kind of sanctuary.

AGENDA:

6:00 PM  EVENT CHECK-IN AND OPENING RECEPTION

6:30 PM – 7:30 PM  PANEL

Christopher F. Rufo, Senior Fellow, MI
Abigail Shrier, Independent Journalist and Author
Moderated by: Brian C. Anderson, Editor, City Journal

 
 

If you accept and find you are unable to attend, please be sure to let us know.

Please also note business casual dress code.

If you have any questions, please email events@manhattan-institute.org.

 

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