Art Hamilton served in the Arizona House of Representatives for 26 years, and 18 of those years were spent as Democratic leader in the Arizona House. Before joining a panel to discuss whether Arizona has become the frontline of American politics, Hamilton took questions in the green room. …
by Paige L. Hill
The headlights of my father’s car illuminate the road to Meadows Field Airport like something out of a Hitchcock movie. The fog swirls and eddies about us as we move along at 40 miles per hour. At 5:30 a.m., there is nothing we can do to thin out. When we slow for a red light, the fog dawdles, gliding thickly over the side of our car. It smells vaguely of dirt and alfalfa and almost seems, in its coiling thickness, to be murmuring to us. As a child, I feared the fog. I knew it claimed the cars of those who didn’t understand its hidden dangers. In the near-desert climate of the San Joaquin Valley, the ground fog rises from the warm earth—Tule fog—an indication to the citrus farmers in my family that we won’t lose an orange crop to the December freeze. …
by Chris Davidson
Bright morning wakes me through
A drapeless window. Away from kids
And wife for the weekend, the bed
Is quiet, the room unpressurized, …
Economist Robert H. Frank is the author most recently of The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good. Before visiting Zócalo to explain why Darwin’s theories might be able to rescue the U.S. economy, he gave us his take on natural selection (his metabolism would be a liability) and the Occupy Wall Street Movement (he’s sympathetic) in the green room. …
In Squaring Off, Zócalo invites authors into the public square to answer five questions about the essence of their books. For this round, we pose questions to Henry Hitchings, author of The Language Wars—A History of Proper English.
English speakers have been arguing about grammar and usage for centuries. Why—from George Bush’s flubs to the first debate in the 1600s over the difference between “will” and “shall”—are we so concerned about conventions? Hitchings’ history of our conflicts over the rules we make for how we write and speak explores the origins of language and examines the role of technology today. …
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