Fred Siegel

Fred Siegel, Scholar in Residence at Brooklyn’s Saint Francis College, is a contributing editor at the Manhattan Institutes City Journal. He is the author with Harry Siegel of The Prince of the City, Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.

CRIMINAL

New York’s Capo of Corruption Goes Down

For 21 years, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was the most powerful man in New York. Now he’s a convicted felon. But is real reform possible in a place as broken as Albany?

Fred Siegel

The New Left

When the Sixties Came Unhinged

<p>Who really won the 60s? Not the hippies but the bureaucrats who absorbed bohemian language in service of govt. programs. An excerpt from Fred Siegel’s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Revolt-Against-Masses-Liberalism/dp/1594036985">The Revolt Against the Masses.</a></i></p>

Fred Siegel

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De Blasio’s Rise

Is This the New Dinkins?

Fred Siegel on mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio’s misguided attempt to depict Dinkins as a crime fighter.

Fred Siegel