Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, is the winner of the 2013 Zócalo Book Prize. He spent 16 …
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L.A.’s 2013 Mayoral Candidates
Either city councilman Eric Garcetti and city controller Wendy Greuel will be L.A.’s next mayor. We heard everything they had to say on education and economy at our live debate …
City Councilman Eric Garcetti
City councilman Eric Garcetti left academia—he had been a professor in international affairs at USC and Occidental College—to join the Los Angeles city council in 2001; he served as city …
City Controller Wendy Greuel
City controller Wendy Greuel entered politics via the office of Mayor Tom Bradley and went on to work in the Clinton administration, at DreamWorks in government and community affairs, and …
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is a Democratic representative from Hawaii as well as a veteran of the Iraq War. Before delivering a keynote lecture on veterans and the meaning of service …
Parsimony, Be Gone
Austerity never works. This was the argument of Brown University political economist Mark Blyth, author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, as he offered his perspective on economic …
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