Kim Phillips-Fein

The CUNY Experiment

The City University of New York has long stood at once for meritocratic uplift and for civil disobedience. 

Private Equity, Public Poverty

“What happens when the owners of wealth cease to have any broader social interest at all?”

Conspicuous Destruction

Two new books argue that the private equity industry has created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts every other value, undermining companies and evading the law.

‘My High-Income Earners’

Eric Adams’s austere fiscal policy seems designed to reassure the wealthy that they will not have to pay their share of New York’s bills. 

New York's Fiscal Crisis

Ever since 1975 New York City has been haunted by the fiscal crisis that beset it beginning that year.