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Is College Football worth the cost?
In spite of a rough stock market and a bumpy economy there is one business, not a tech company, that has grown revenues from $229 million in 1999 to …
10 years, 8 months ago
The Gift of Failure
I’ve often told the story of a newly minted teacher considering her first job. She had several offers, but in the end there were two that were intri…
10 years, 8 months ago
Wes Craven - The Joy of Being Scared
Through the efforts of both critics and audiences, we’ve come to understand that “genre films,” are just as significant as mainstream films. Few mas…
10 years, 8 months ago
Oliver Sacks R.I.P
How do we navigate the world in spite of change? It's one of the central tenants of modern society. Over and over again, Oliver Sacks used the exper…
10 years, 8 months ago
The not so perfect storm
The phrase “The Perfect Storm” has come to mean a lot of things. Most notably the unique and singular coming together of disparate forces to mark a …
10 years, 8 months ago
The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing
When we think about the iconography and the history of contemporary policing and urban criminal justice what comes to mind? Sixty years ago it was D…
10 years, 8 months ago
Plenty Ladylike
Even today, fifteen months before Election Day, we are in full political campaign season. And while we hear a lot of loose talk about issues, it’s e…
10 years, 8 months ago
Beat L.A.
One of the ongoing conundrums in sports is whether it’s about the team or the individual? Back in the early days of the NFL, Pete Rozelle believed …
10 years, 8 months ago
Why Addiction is Not a Disease - Recovering from Recovery
We have developed what amounts to an addiction/industrial complex. Each year billions are spent, in both public and private dollars, to treat, cure,…
10 years, 8 months ago
Life after Nuclear War
As we debate the ins and out of nuclear proliferation, on editorial pages and in the drawing rooms of Georgetown; in the halls of Congress and in the…
10 years, 8 months ago