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Category Archives: California
California Historian Kevin Starr
On June 25, 1978, Harvey Milk (1930-1978) stood before hundreds of thousands of people at San Francisco City Hall and named his enemies. He named Anita Bryant (1940-2024), the singer who had led the campaign to repeal a gay rights … Continue reading
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Good Faith and Its Strangers: The Hero System of William Shernoff
A rung breaks on a ladder in Pomona, and a roofer falls twelve feet onto his back. His name is Michael Egan. He is a stout Irish immigrant who works on top of houses in the morning and carries his … Continue reading
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The Advance Man
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) built his last book on a single wound. A man knows he will die, and he cannot hold that knowledge and keep moving, so he builds something to stand between himself and the grave. He joins a … Continue reading
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Xavier Becerra’s Hero System
The night he won, the room in Los Angeles did not belong to a man who had spent most of the race in the low single digits. On June 2, 2026, Xavier Becerra (b. 1958) stepped out to claim his … Continue reading
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The Steve Hilton Hero System
Ernest Becker (1924-1974) held that a man lives against two terrors. The first is death, the animal knowledge that the body fails and the self goes dark. The second runs quieter. It is the dread of counting for nothing while … Continue reading
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Rob Stutzman: A Life in the California Political Trade
Rob Stutzman belongs to a generation of California political strategists whose work spans the move from late twentieth-century campaign politics to the modern public affairs industry. For more than three decades he has worked as a campaign consultant, a government … Continue reading
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The Emotional Palettes Of San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco & Sacramento
San Diego paints in soft pastels. Sun-bleached cream, eucalyptus green, sandstone gold, the muted teal of the Pacific seen from a cliff in La Jolla. Light arrives filtered through ocean air and looks permanently late-afternoon, even at noon. Visible stress … Continue reading
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The UC California Diversity Industry
In 1996 California voters passed Proposition 209, amending the state constitution to prohibit public institutions from discriminating against or granting preferential treatment to individuals based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in public employment, education, and contracting. The … Continue reading
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The Nursing Home Industrial Complex: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Billions in California
Players in California’s nursing home industry do not compete for authority by openly saying they want control over billions in Medi-Cal and Medicare reimbursements, or by defending the financial engineering that extracts those billions through related-party transactions, sale-leaseback structures, and … Continue reading
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The Cesar Chavez Abuse Story
This is a meticulously reported investigative piece by The New York Times that destroys the sanitized public image of Cesar Chavez as an untouchable civil-rights saint. Reporters Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes spent months interviewing more than 60 people (victims, … Continue reading
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