The McSilver Review is an independent quarterly of policy commentary, founded in 2013 and edited from Providence, Rhode Island. It publishes essays on three subjects — public safety, transportation, and community health — because those are the domains in which a city government still meaningfully touches the daily life of the people it serves.

The Review is not affiliated with any university, foundation, party, or advocacy organization. It accepts no advertising and no restricted grants. It is supported by its subscribers, and by a small endowment established in memory of its founding editor's grandfather, for whom it is named.

Our writers are practitioners as often as they are academics: former city administrators, transit planners, clinicians, prosecutors, and beat reporters who have earned the right to an opinion by working inside the systems they write about. We publish slowly, edit heavily, and print quarterly. The web edition carries the essays in full, on the belief that a policy argument that cannot survive a link is not much of an argument.

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Founding Editor

Eliot McSilver

Editor

Priya Rangan

Public Safety

Nora Halligan

Transportation

Devon Marchetti

Community Health

Amara Whitfield, MD

Copy

Jonas Reilly

A word on independence

Independence is a claim that can only be verified over time and against temptation. We publish a full donor list once a year, list every writer's outside commitments beneath their bylines, and decline commissions whose subjects overlap with their employers. When we are wrong, we say so in the following issue, in the same space we were wrong in.