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Myron Magnet
Myron Magnet is editor-at-large of City Journal. A former member of the board of editors of Fortune, he has written about a wide variety of topics, from American society and social policy, economics, and corporate management to intellectual history, literature, architecture, and the country’s founding. In addition to his many City Journal and Fortune articles, Magnet has written for Commentary, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Spectator, and the New York Times, among others. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs. The author of critically-acclaimed books including Dickens and the Social Order (1985), The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass (1993), and The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735–1817 (2013), Magnet is also the editor of What Makes Charity Work? A Century of Public and Private Philanthropy (2000), The Millennial City: A New Urban Paradigm for 21st-Century America (2001), Modern Sex: Liberation and Its Discontents (2001), and The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan than Today’s (2007). In 2008, President Bush awarded Magnet the National Humanities Medal.