Myron Magnet
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Myron Magnet (b. 1945) is the editor of City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's quarterly journal of urban affairs, which focuses primarily upon publishing suggested reforms for endemic urban dilemmas such as housing, taxes, crime, and healthcare from a free-market, devolutionist perspective.
He has also served as a member of the Board of Editors at Fortune Magazine, a publication for which he also wrote numerous articles after joining its staff in 1980, in addition to publishing essays or op-eds in Commentary, The Washington Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, among other publications.
Magnet is the author of several books, and is probably most well-known for writing The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass, which President George W. Bush has cited as a book that had a profound influence on his approach to public policy. The central premise of the book is that the dramatic political transformation that the United States experienced as a result of the growth of 1960s counterculture created a vast underclass whose societal maladies we are still being forced to address.
Magnet holds bachelor's degrees from both Columbia University (1966) and the University of Cambridge, as well an M.A. from Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
