Welcome back to Ten Blocks.

This week's special episode features audio from a Manhattan Institute event hosted in

Washington, D.C., featuring the Manhattan Institute's and City Journal contributing editors

Charles Fain Lehman, the Cato Institute's Emily Eakins, National Reviews Nate Hockman,

and Fox News contributor and spectator editor at large, Ben Dominic.

We hope you enjoy.

Okay, good evening, everyone.

I'm Jesse Arm, the Director of External Affairs at the Manhattan Institute,

and I want to welcome you all to the National Press Club this evening.

The name of our program tonight is How to Win a Culture War.

The topic of this evening's discussion raises a question central to American politics

broadly and the work of the Manhattan Institute specifically.

With corporations, educators, institutions, and lawmakers facing demands to enter

debates over race, gender, multiculturalism, the idea of any sort of apolitical entity being

allowed to operate in the United States seems to be going extinct. Opinion research that

we've conducted at MI suggests that Americans are deeply concerned

over a declining quality of life in their communities, the rise of speech restrictions,

and radical identity politics in government, media, education, business in the arts.

Through extensive polling from last fall, we identified a group that we call the Metropolitan

Majority, a multi-ethnic block of voters in and around America's cities who care about crime,

the cost of living, and the quality of public education.

They embrace proactive policing, school choice, economic freedom, and they largely reject

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