An article in the Arts & Ideas section of today's New York Times mentions a "lecture to the Manhattan Institute, a conservative public policy group that publishes the monthly City Journal."
City Journal is, of course, a quarterly, not a monthly. Those interested in cities, including the editor of Smartertimes.com, appreciate the publication for its thoughtful analysis and in-depth reporting on urban affairs. It's based in New York City. And it's just astonishing that the Times can't manage to report accurately how often it comes out.
Bollinger Blunder: The national section of today's New York Times includes a profile of the president of the University of Michigan, Lee Bollinger. The profile strangely omits any mention of Mr. Bollinger's role in the controversy over the speech code adopted by the University of Michigan in 1988. The code was later thrown out by a court as unconstitutional. Earlier this year, while Mr. Bollinger was under consideration for the presidency of Harvard, Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby wrote a column examining Mr. Bollinger's role in the speech code matter. The Times profile has room for a mention of Mr. Bollinger's time in the Boston Marathon and the name of his yellow Labrador, but apparently didn't have space to discuss the free speech issue.