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Greg Critser, "Generation Rx:How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies"
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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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, 7:00 PM
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 ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Margaret Wertheim, "Space versus Spirit: Why the Battle between Science and Religion is Driving us Crazy"
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 , 2006, 7:00 PM
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 ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Max Boot, "How Revolutions in Military Affairs have Shaped History"
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 , 2006, 7:00 PM
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 ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
An Evening with Niall Ferguson
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17 , 2006, 7:00 PM
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 ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Michael Tomasky, "What's Wrong with Liberalism?"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10 , 2006, 7:00 PM
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 ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
