Ethan Elkind is associate director of UC Berkeley and UCLA’s climate change and business program, with a joint appointment at both universities’ law schools. He is also the author of Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City. Before participating in a discussion of the future of trains in Southern California, he explained how he talks to climate change deniers and aspiring lawyers in the Zócalo green room.
I may have to take back everything bad I ever said about California’s high-speed rail project.
This thought ran through my head as I stood one morning last week at Gate …
“Can you think of a city in the United States that was more determined by the railroad” than Los Angeles? Chapman University English scholar Tom Zoellner, author of Train, opened …
Trains changed the world, but then cars and planes came along, and they became a tertiary form of transportation, particularly in the U.S. But journalist and Chapman University English scholar …
Trains and rail are inseparable from California’s past. When Leland Stanford hammered “The Golden Spike” in an 1869 ceremony in Utah, he united the first transcontinental railway in the U.S.—and …
Zócalo’s editors are throwing it back to some of our favorite pieces from the archive. This week: Writer Chiwan Choi reflects on #90for90, an …
