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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/undead/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/mike-davis">Mike Davis</a></p>
<p>I finally think I’ve understood why we’re so obsessed with zombies. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/undead/#more-2656" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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The Undead

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/remembering-tom-hayden/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/mike-davis">Mike Davis</a></p>
<p>Fifty-two years ago this December, an obscure group of young activists, Students for a Democratic Society, held a national council meeting in New York to discuss the next year’s work.  As I recall there were about forty people present, some of them recent veterans of Freedom Summer, others peace and civil rights activists at campuses such as Swarthmore, Michigan, Chicago, Harvard and Tufts.     <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/remembering-tom-hayden/#more-2505" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Remembering Tom Hayden

The Elderly: Unworthy of Life?

<h4>Mike Davis&nbsp;was one of the leading intellectuals of his era and a contributing editor at the&nbsp;<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>.&nbsp;His works include <i>City of Quartz</i> (1990), a seminal study of&nbsp;Los Angeles’s&nbsp;economic and racial fault lines,&nbsp;<i>Planet of Slums</i> (2005),&nbsp;<i>In Praise of Barbarians</i> (2007), and <em>Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties</em> (2020), co-written with Jon Wiener.</h4>

Mike Davis

Set the Night on Fire

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

A Week in the Death of Alfred Olongo

A Note from Mike Davis about the Second Amendment

BILLIONAIRES AND SUPER-STORMS

History of Utah Radicalism

Brigham Young

The Reds Under Romney’s Bed

The Embers of April 1992

The Questionnaire: Mike Davis

No More Bubblegum

The Ghost of Wrath

Mike Davis&nbsp;was one of the leading intellectuals of his era and a contributing editor at the&nbsp;<i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i>.&nbsp;His works include <i>City of Quartz</i> (1990), a seminal study of&nbsp;Los Angeles’s&nbsp;economic and racial fault lines,&nbsp;<i>Planet of Slums</i> (2005),&nbsp;<i>In Praise of Barbarians</i> (2007), and <em>Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties</em> (2020), co-written with Jon Wiener.