In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five probing questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to Peter Laufer, author of Calexico: True Lives of the Borderlands…
Archive for September, 2011
Mend, If Not End
Posted By Zócalo On September 20, 2011
California’s statewide system of direct democracy—the initiative, referendum, and recall—turns 100 years old this fall. Remarkably, the system approved by voters in October 1911 has not changed all that much in the century since. But the state and its politics have changed radically, as California has grown from an outpost of 2.4 million people to a nation-within-a-nation of 38 million…
Obtuse Triangles
Posted By Zócalo On September 19, 2011
by Michelle Mitchell-Foust
I could cast them in The Grapes of Wrath,
On the road
between here and there, them standing …
Why Not Blow $9 Billion on a Cool Train?
Posted By Zócalo On September 19, 2011
by Richard White
California’s long love affair with cars is going sour. There is the price of gas. There are the crowded freeways. There is the internal combustion engine, which threatens the health of our children. What we need is a whole new relationship, one that will make us hip, exciting, and green…
The Philosopher-Fisticuffers
Posted By Zócalo On September 18, 2011
by Konstantin Kakaes
In 1920, Jose Vasconcelos, the newly appointed rector of Mexico’s national university, started publishing the classics in translation at a feverish pace. He would call it the “first flood of books in the history of Mexico.” “A campaign against illiteracy began and young intellectuals strode into the slums,” writes Enrique Krauze in his new book, Redeemers, a picaresque history of Latin American intellectuals…
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