Event Rundown
Greg Critser, "Generation Rx:How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies"
| Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Los Angeles-based author Greg Critser will deliver a lecture based on his new book, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies, which explores the overmedication of Americans--from children taking ADD medication to senior citizens taking larger and occasionally fatal drug cocktails. Critser applies his incisive reporter's eye--honed from years of covering the pharmaceutical industry and the politics of medicine--to find out why so many Americans now pop prescription pills like candy.
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"L.A. vs. New York: Who's Got the Scoop on Hollywood?"
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Four ace Hollywood journalists--Sharon Waxman and Laura Holson of The New York Times and Patrick Goldstein and John Horn of the Los Angeles Times--visit Zócalo to discuss how the Industry is perceived on opposite coasts. Does L.A.'s hometown paper have the edge in covering the quintessential Los Angeles business? Or does the New York Times bring an outsider's perspective that enlivens that newspaper's coverage of "the Industry"? Join us for a ...
Margaret Wertheim, "Space versus Spirit: Why the Battle between Science and Religion is Driving us Crazy"
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Science and religion are often viewed as two competing and utterly opposed worldviews--one based on faith, the other on reason. Yet both are systems that attempt to make sense of the world and of humanity's place within a wider cosmological scheme. Religions usually posit that the material realm is just one part of a larger whole that also includes an immaterial spiritual domain, while modern science speaks only of a physical realm. But at the birth of modern science in the seventeenth ...
Max Boot, "How Revolutions in Military Affairs have Shaped History"
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Historian and LA Times columnist Max Boot visits Zócalo to discuss how innovations in weaponry and tactics have not only transformed how wars are fought and won but also have guided the course of human events, from the formation of the first modern states 500 years ago, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the coming of al-Qaeda. The award-winning author of The Savage Wars of Peace, and the recently published War Made New, Boot will put forth a new intellectual framework ...
An Evening with Niall Ferguson
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Niall Ferguson courts controversy. One of the most brilliant economic and military historians of his generation, the British Harvard professor and L.A. Times columnist has written books comparing the "per kill" cost of World War I armies, and praising the British empire. Ferguson's The Pity of War was a sensation in Britain for its assertion that the country would have been better off staying out of World War I. A prolific contributor to such publications as Time and The New ...
Michael Tomasky, "What's Wrong with Liberalism?"
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Last May, Michael Tomasky published an essay in The American Prospect, the respected liberal opinion magazine he edits, that set Washington on its ear. "Party in Search of a Notion" was Tomasky’s call for the Democrats to rise above the politics of interest-group particularism and become the party of the common good. The influential essay got front-page treatment in The New York Times and is one of the most widely quoted magazine essays of the past decade. Tomasky will ...
