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Steven Malanga is the George M. Yeager Fellow at MI. He writes about the intersection of urban economies, business communities, and public policy. Steven is also a contributing editor at City Journal.
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The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert The Interstate Highway System, which the U.S. began constructing in the 1950s, has a complicated legacy, to say the least. Boosters see it as the greatest infrastructure program undertaken in the country during the second half of the twentieth century, connecting vast areas in new and important ways, unlocking largely untapped regions outside of cities that helped spark a new kind of middle-class living. Detractors accuse the system s planners and builders of emptying out cities and encouraging the rise of low-density suburban sprawl. That process, critics argue, prompted white flight to the suburbs, while stranding poor minorities in urban neighborhoods disfigured by the highways that bisected them. To these critics, the Interstate Highway System is just another example of America s racist past.