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Mike Davis, whose 2006 book The Monster at Our Door warned of the threat of a global bird flu pandemic, explains how…
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.
Let me begin, very obliquely, with the Grand Canyon and the paradox of trying to see beyond cultural or historical precedent. The…
This August, just as the first Santa Ana winds bent the boughs of the eucalyptus trees in Balboa Park, 500 wealthy business…
THE MEDIA verdict on this disaster seems to be that the federal government and the state and local authorities did a…
Does this generation of Americans have the “right stuff” to meet the epic challenges of sustaining life on a rapidly warming planet?…
The polar bear on its shrinking ice floe has become the urgent icon of global warming and runaway climate change. Even the…
Despite heroic reassurances from both the White House and the Pentagon that the six-week-old U.S. escalation in Baghdad and al-Anbar Province is…
Was the November 2006 midterm election an epic political massacre or just a routine midterm brawl? In the week after the Democratic…
The visitor crossing from Tijuana to San Diego these days is immediately slapped in the face by a huge billboard screaming, “Stop…
TD: It occurs to me that, in Baghdad, the Bush administration has managed to create a weird version of the urban world…