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Why Is There a Lack of Opportunity in American Cities?

| June 27, 2017 | Economics

Why Is There a Lack of Opportunity in American Cities?
In 1831, a 25-year-old Frenchman stepped off a boat in Newport, Rhode Island. Over the ensuing nine months, he would visit nearly every major city along the Eastern Seaboard and inland America—from Cincinnati and Memphis to Boston and New York City. “Americans love...
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Michael Hendrix
Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.

How America’s Diversity Could Revolutionize Policymaking

| May 10, 2016 | Politics

How America’s Diversity Could Revolutionize Policymaking
America is an increasingly fragmented republic.  The ties that bind us culturally and economically have come unwound in the face of enormous change. To Yuval Levin, writing in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, this is a reality we can neither lament nor ignore:...
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Michael Hendrix
Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.

The Upside of Uncertainty

| December 8, 2015 | Politics

The Upside of Uncertainty
“In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what...
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Michael Hendrix
Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.

When It Comes to Entrepreneurship, Culture Matters

| August 26, 2015 | Economics

When It Comes to Entrepreneurship, Culture Matters
“Culture is one of the most precious things a company has,” said Herb Kelleher, the founder of Southwest Airlines. So it is with countries and cities looking to foster entrepreneurship. A recent study of startup rates in the United States and Great Britain found that...
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Michael Hendrix
Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.

Let Them Eat Capitalism

| August 24, 2015 | Economics

Let Them Eat Capitalism
Clive Crook, a columnist at BloombergView, recently challenged what he calls the “Aspen Consensus,” a set of unquestioned assumptions by the Intellectual Class that capitalism is a “morally tainted enterprise.”  Such a view, Crook finds, is held most fervently and...
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Michael Hendrix
Michael Hendrix is the director of state and local policy at the Manhattan Institute, where he manages scholars, conducts research, and leads outreach.