Natural Consequences: Intimate Essays for a Planet in Peril

Peter Sebastian Chesney earned his PhD in history from UCLA. He is a historical consultant and a visiting professor at Pepperdine University.

Peter Sebastian Chesney

Hot Time in the BioCity: On Char Miller’s “Natural Consequences”

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

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

History

Matt Garcia is a professor of History and Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College and the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (2001) and From the Jaws of Victory:&nbsp; The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement (2012).

Matt Garcia

William Deverell is the director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.

William Deverell

<h4>John Shannon is the author of the critically acclaimed  Jack Liffey detective novels, including The Concrete River (1996), The Cracked Earth (1999), The Orange Curtain (2001), Terminal Island (2004), and A Little Too Much (2011). He has also written a three-generation saga novel of the American Left — Socialist, Communist, New Left — called The Taking of the Waters, originally published by John Brown Books in 1994, and now available on Amazon as an eBook. <a href="http://www.jackliffey.com/">www.jackliffey.com</a></h4>

John Shannon

David Kipen is the author of several books, among his recent the anthology Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

David Kipen

Derrick Ortega is an instructor in Creative Writing at Chapman University and Orange County School of the Arts.

Derrick Ortega

Remembering Mike Davis

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

No House for You, Kid

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

Politics

The Spoils of Dust

Have Your Dust and Eat It: On Alexander Robinson’s “The Spoils of Dust: Reinventing the Lake that Made Los Angeles”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa