How Does Politics Shape National Security? |
Julian E. Zelizer, a Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton, came across the idea for his Arsenal of Democracy shortly after 9/11. Watching Americans react to the event, Zelizer said, he was interested in “how quickly politics reemerged after that event, and how quickly both parties started to fight with each other.” |
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FEUILLETON
Versus
Lawyer vs. Lawyer On whether the Justice Department should release the names of lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees.
Duct vs. Duck Both are, in fact, types of tape.
POEMS
MARE IMBRIUM: a girl in the birthing room
by Karen An-Hwei Lee
For all mujeres, I hold a cluster of yellow-eyed daisies
lest one day my soul, too, contort in pain.
Rain is colostrum rich. A new moon sips thin
IN THE GREEN ROOM
Steve Westly
Steve Westly is a Managing Partner of The Westly Group, a venture capital firm that invests primarily in clean technology companies. Prior to founding The Westly Group, he served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California. Read more about him below.
THIS WEEK IN L.A.
Roads, Things, Bronzes
Monday
Ted Conover On how roads shape our lives, at Zócalo.
Tuesday
Jared Diamond and John Long In conversation at the Hammer.
John Rich: What Fuels the Cycle of Urban Violence?
Dr. John A. Rich explains why victims of urban violence suffer trauma like returning soldiers, and why doctors' failure to treat it makes the problem worse.
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About Zócalo Public Square
Zócalo Public Square is a non-profit organization that mobilizes broad audiences around the fundamental issues that affect our lives as Americans. Through our web magazine, lectures, panels, screenings, and conferences, Zócalo takes on compelling ideas from a wide range of fields — politics, governance, health, economics, technology, foreign policy, arts, science and beyond. Believing that over-specialization and narrowcasting undermine the public square, Zócalo seeks to restore broad-mindedness to civic and intellectual life and to welcome a new, young and diverse generation to the conversation.
Since 2003, Zócalo has roamed around Los Angeles, to Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco and as far as Shanghai, Berlin and Guadalajara. We have featured over 800 thinkers and doers online and on the ground, using our live events to build community and feed the open, accessible, non-partisan spirit of our magazine.
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Monday, March 15, 2010,
How Roads Shape Our Lives
Ted Conover
Roads bind our world. The dense patchwork of an urban grid, looping and soaring city highways, long and straight country trails and narrow, curving mountain passes connect people everywhere with goods, knowledge, disease, and each other. Roads define the way we speak — our careers run in ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010,
Is Mass Incarceration the New Jim Crow?
Michelle Alexander
Americans celebrated the election of Barack Obama as a “triumph over race.” But in major U.S. cities today, the majority of young black men are locked behind bars or labeled felons for life. Jim Crow laws may have been wiped off the books decades ago, but an astounding number of ...
Books
Ten Years Old and Divorced
by Nujood Ali
The story of the divorce that shook the Muslim world, caused the Yemeni parliament to raise the age of consent, and earned the then-10-year-old international press attention.
The Routes of Man
by Ted Conover
The history of speed, from the first teenage driver to the first woman to drive the Indy 500 to Conover's teenage trek through Colorado in his dad’s Porsche to meet a girl.
The Dragon's Gift
by Deborah Brautigam
The truth behind sensational headlines about China's involvement in Africa.
The Shot
