Daniel Golliher is a Cities fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on housing, public order, and the institutions that shape everyday life in New York. He is the founder of Maximum New York, a civics school launched in 2022. Golliher’s programming has taught hundreds of New Yorkers how their government actually works. He teaches classes on New York City law and government, New York State, the federal government, American history, and legislative drafting.

Through his writing and teaching, Golliher seeks to make the machinery of city politics legible and persuade New Yorkers that they can and should wield civic power themselves. Golliher originally grew up on a farm in Indiana, earned a B.A. in government from Harvard University, and moved to New York City in 2019.