Mike Davis is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and the author of Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, In Praise of Barbarians, and more than a dozen other books. He teaches at the University of California Riverside.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Elderly: Unworthy of Life?
Probably the single most sinister term in the Nazi lexicon was lebensunwertes Leben, “life unworthy of life.” It was the label ...
Set the Night on Fire
LARB presents an excerpt from Mike Davis and Jon Wiener"s "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties."...
A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment
FIVE WEEKS BEFORE the final ratification of the Bill of Rights in December 1791, the regular Army of ...
A Week in the Death of Alfred Olongo
A chronicle from Mike Davis following the death of Alfred Olongo....
BILLIONAIRES AND SUPER-STORMS
The eye of the super-hurricane was reported to have come ashore at Cuixmala, where English robber baron Sir James Goldsmith built his Xanadu....
The Reds Under Romney’s Bed
IN 1884 THE JOURNALIST Edward Bellamy, struggling with an idea for a utopian novel, visited the only actually-existing Communist society on ...
The Embers of April 1992
"Los Angeles became a carnival of repression."...
No More Bubblegum
Our sit-in 46 years ago was a guerrilla raid; this is Wall Street under siege by the Lilliputians....
The Ghost of Wrath
Harrison Gray Otis: a biography in progress....
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