— Russell PayneOn that summer evening, it hosted a talk on how to prevent crime on the city’s subways by a researcher at the Manhattan Institute, the house think tank of New York City’s conservative elite, which is probably best known as the incubator for ideologues like Charles Murray, the author of “The Bell Curve,” and Christopher Rufo, who helped instigate the moral panic around critical race theory.
Replicated under Fair Use from Panic in the Hamptons: The fight to stop Zohran Mamdani by Russell Payne.