Culture writer based in L.A. Senior editor @thepublicsquare. Formerly @smithsonianmag. Actually logged in on Bluesky
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Lots of fancy reporter types dunking on this quote and story but the cub reporter bought a local paper and is trying to make it work. We should applaud the effort and not punch down. I’d take a cub reporter who can learn over a private equity bottom line cutting machine.
“I was asked the other day if local journalism was boring, and I was like, ‘It may be boring, but it’s necessary.’”
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Historian @kevinawaite takes stock of Biddy Mason's legacy as DTLA's Pershing Square is renamed for the "founding mother of Black Los Angeles." zps.la/4rzWmyt
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For our new series "What Is the New World Order?," Zócalo asked Saving Utopia author Joe P. L. Davidson to consider the ways utopian writers can inspire alternative futures.zps.la/4xeoCYw
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It took nearly 30 years after seeing her first zine for writer Rachel Burstein to realize the handmade pubs could help her express things she needed to say, and build her own "beloved community."
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Joan Baez, W. S. Merwin, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Cecillia Wang. Why one writer's 21st-century superhero pantheon features a folk singer, a poet, a Civil War veteran, and an ACLU lawyer:
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Romance genre historian Steve Ammidown writes about the summer of 1994, when, for the first time, Black Romance readers had a choice of books featuring characters who looked like them.zps.la/4g6Ckay
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Every Friday, Zócalo publishes a new poem. Read "A Walk-Through" by Christopher Howell.
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"Examining the harder chapters of our history is not the same as hostility toward America,” @amhistorymuseum director Anthea Hartig told a Congressional subcommittee this week. Four historians defend her nuanced approach to telling America's story. zocalopublicsquare.org/in-de…
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Hannah Arendt is best known as a philosopher of crisis. While the ills she explored are well-known, her diagnosis is much less so—and even more important, writes @dlondonwortel.
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Every Friday, Zócalo publishes a new poem. Read "Tremors" by M.L. Smoker.
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Are you proteinmaxxing? Fibermaxxing? Diet, like so much of our lives, has become something we're told we should optimize. Computer science professor Benjamin Recht writes about optimization culture:
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Hollywood location manager Kojo E. Lewis has been in the biz for more than 40 years. Read his piece on capturing L.A. communities in Boyz n the Hood, Friday, and more.
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As Disneyland celebrates its 70th anniversary, scholar Roland Betancourt considers how the amusement park influenced our relationship with automation and AI. zocalopublicsquare.org/how-d…
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Since the 18th century, citizens and revolutionaries throughout the Western Hemisphere found inspiration in the U.S.—and vice versa, writes @UofT political scientist Arturo Chang:
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"In those 1990s clubs and car shows, you could see and feel that Asian Americans weren’t assimilating culture. We were creating it."
Ky-Phong Tran for @ThePublicSquare: zocalopublicsquare.org/my-mi…
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When writer Fernando Pérez bought his first home in Seattle, he wanted privacy. But the children next door had other ideas. zocalopublicsquare.org/the-f…
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Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public.
And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired.
What a shame @sciam
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Quench your thirst (for knowledge) with Zócalo’s 2026 Summer Reading List. zocalopublicsquare.org/drink…
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Organizer Catherine Garoupa White was told over and over that the Central Valley's unhealthy air—and health problems that went with it—was unavoidable. She refused to accept that. She wrote in 2022 about what it would take to build a more equitable future. zocalopublicsquare.org/san-j…
