Welcome back to 10 blocks. This week's special episode features remarks from former Attorney General William Barr

delivered at the City Journal Awards in Manhattan. We hope you enjoy it. City Journal has indeed

expanded since I've joined. We've gone from being a small quarterly magazine that punches well

above our weight to being a daily website that still punches

above our weight, I'd like to think.

We now publish, as Rehan was saying, a lot of articles, four a day, in fact, approaching

the output of a newspaper editorial page.

And of course, every quarter we still turn in the print magazine on time or very close

to it.

This issue is going to be late because we've been involved with this event, so whatever.

That kind of expansion wouldn't be possible without our fantastic stable of writers and contributing editors, many of whom are here tonight, or our hardworking editorial team, Paul Beston, Steve Malanga,

Teddy Kupfer, who we stole from National Review, Dan Kennelli and Madeline Miller.

And it certainly wouldn't be possible without the enthusiastic institutional support

and intellectual independence that our publisher, the Manhattan Institute, and its generous trustees of ward us.

Under Rihann and Alana, and under their predecessors, Larry Mone and Vanessa Mendoza, who are here tonight.

We're really grateful to everyone who keeps City Journal flourishing, in other words.

Our first awardee tonight is William Barr.

Mr. Barr is a native New Yorker and earned his undergraduate and master's degrees at

Columbia.

After working for a time as an analyst at the CIA, and I can see the conspiratorial tweets tomorrow.

The culinaryist.

Right, yes.

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