Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Inc.
New York, NY 10017
The Institute "...advocates privatization of sanitation services and infrastructure maintenance, deregulation in the area of environmental and consumer protection, school vouchers and cuts in government spending on social welfare programs; it is a preferred source of information for New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani."
Literary home of Bradley-funded author Charles Murray while he was writing the book Losing Ground.
Ben Adler
Tapped
February 13, 2007
False notes from Guilani's House Organ
http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/02/post_2805.html#015511
During Rudy Giuliani's tenure as mayor of New York City, the conservative periodical City Journal, associated with the Manhattan Institute, functioned as a sort of house organ. They justified Giuliani's policies with a neoconservative critique of the welfare state and urban underclass social norms, while helping to churn out the policy ideas he implemented...
So it should come as no surprise that they are now flacking for Giuliani's nascent presidential campaign.
Michael Barbaro and Stephanie Strom
NY Times
September 7, 2006
Wal-Mart Finds an Ally in Conservatives
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/business/08walmart.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
As Wal-Mart Stores struggles to rebut criticism from unions and Democratic leaders, the company has discovered a reliable ally: prominent conservative research groups like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute.
Top policy analysts at these groups have written newspaper opinion pieces around the country supporting Wal-Mart, defended the company in interviews with reporters and testified on its behalf before government committees in Washington.
Roger Ailes
January 17, 2006
More Oreo Lies
http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2006_01_15_rogerailes_archive.html#113759841646364224
In a piece touting Ken Blackwell as the new Ronald Reagan -- which should come in handy if Blackwell's ever indicted -- a City Journal hack repeats the lie that Lt. Governor Michael Steele was pelted with cookies...
Norman Solomon
FAIR.org / Extra!
February 28, 1998
The Manhattan Institute: Launch Pad For Conservative Authors
http://www.accuracy.org/article.php?articleId=49
When Abigail Thernstrom became a national media star in late 1997, her prominence as a scholarly foe of affirmative action was yet another triumph for the Manhattan Institute. Once again, its "Book Fellowship Program" had launched an author into the media stratosphere.