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The young American Marine is exultant. “It’s a sniper’s dream,” he tells a Los Angeles Times reporter on the outskirts of Fallujah.…
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.
The most evil film ever made was probably Jud Suess, commissioned by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1940 to fan hatred…
Mass death soon may be coming to a neighborhood near you, and the Department of Homeland Security will be helpless to prevent…
When delirious crowds tore down the Berlin Wall in 1989, many hallucinated that a millennium of borderless freedom was at hand. Globalization…
In his dark masterpiece, Blood Meridian (1985), novelist Cormac McCarthy tells the terrifying tale of a gang of Yanqui scalp-hunters who left…
Sunday morning in San Diego. The sun is an eerie orange orb, like the eye of a hideous jack-o-lantern. The fire…
The mobs howled again in California, rattling windows on the Potomac. Are the barbarians marching eastward, as they did after the famous…
Europe‘s long, hot, tragic summer begs a little North American background. In July 1995, the administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley…
Europe‘s long, hot, tragic summer begs a little North American background. In July 1995, the administration of Mayor Richard M. Daley…
[Davis‘s article is preceded by a lengthy introduction by Engelhardt.] Mike Davis on Bombshell Art by Tom Engelhardt I well remember…