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A friend in Canada recently asked me if the Sixties’ protests had any important lessons to pass on to the Occupy movement.…
Mike Davis
Named a Macarthur Fellow in 1998, he was also honored for distinguished achievement in nonfiction writing this past fall by the Lannan Literary Foundation. Professor Davis is the author of more than 20 books and more than 100 book chapters and essays in the scholarly and elite popular press. His scholarly interest span urban studies, the built environment, economic history and social movements. Perhaps his best know book, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles was named a best book in urban politics by the American Political Science Association and won the Isaac Deutscher Award from the London School of Economics and has been translated into eight languages.
In my lifetime I’ve heard two speakers whose unadorned eloquence and moral clarity pulled my heart right out of my chest. One…
1. Twin Towers Two years from now the staffs of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker will move into the most haunted building in the world.…
Ten years ago, lower Manhattan became the Sarajevo of the “war on terrorism”. Although conscience recoils against making an equation between the…
When my old gang and I were 14 or 15, many centuries ago, we yearned for immortality in the fiery wreck of…
When my old gang and I were 14 or 15 years old, many centuries ago, we yearned for immortality in the fiery…
Kern County sheriff’s deputies enforcing the lockout against ILWU mineworkers in Boron, California, January 31 The biggest hole in California, with the…
California has resolved its budget crisis–for now–with devastating results for the poor and working people. The agreement reached in late July between…
At the Socialism 2009 conference in San Francisco, two of California’s best-known radicals, Mike Davis and David Bacon, led a discussion about…
"Since everyone is dumping on Mexico these days, you might as well help me do the real thing." My friend Marcos Ramirez…