Brian C. Anderson

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Brian C. Anderson is an American writer and editor of City Journal , a quarterly magazine, published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.

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Anderson received his BA and MA from Boston College. He obtained a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Ottawa. [1]

Anderson served as previously literary editor of Crisis during most of the 1990s.

In the late 1990s, he became a senior editor at the City Journal, a quarterly magazine, published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. In 2007, he became editor-in-chief there. [2]

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  1. "Brian C. Anderson". Manhattan Institute. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
  2. Rauh, Grace (17 May 2007). "'Wonderfully Unpredictable' New City Journal Editor". The New York Sun.
  3. Schillinger, Liesl (26 June 2005). "'South Park Conservatives': Bullying Liberals Back". The New York Times.