TODAY, March 11: Mythili Prakash is an Indian American Bharatanatyam choreographer and dancer. She joins us in Stanford, CA, for “How Do We Dance With Legacy?”—an event with @stanford.edu IAJS. RSVP now (and watch live online): zps.la/iajs4
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Who’s the better bet? Plutarch-quoting Gavin Newsom in the presidential race or Plutarch, the Arcadia-based thoroughbred?
Columnist @californiajoe.bsky.social handicaps the horse races: zps.la/3NgxX0R
Education advocate Ben Austin worked with the late Rob Reiner from 2002 to 2006 running strategic communications for First 5 California. He reflects on Reiner's vision for L.A.: zps.la/4lhpCXl
Every Friday, Zócalo publishes a new poem. Read "Tamale" by Tristan Franz. zps.la/4rMPpct
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Mount Rushmore is in the Black Hills of South Dakota, an island of ponderosa pine and billion-year-old granite in the otherwise flat prairie—a place the Lakota call "The Heart of Everything That Is": zps.la/40cgc5O
War doesn’t end when the fighting stops. “We need to understand with a very clear eye that we are upending millions of lives for generations, and ask the question: Are these wars worth it?” said New York Times’ U.N. bureau chief Farnaz Fassihi. youtube.com/shorts/-zOAY...
What does the future look like for Iran? In 2012, Iranian Americans discussed the state of their diverse community in L.A.—home to the largest Iranian community in the U.S.—and talked about community, connection, and rebuilding after the regime: zps.la/2HdsXTq
Sameh’s essay was written ahead of Zócalo’s 2022 program, “How Can Women and Girls Win in Iran?” Panelists discussed the “social media uprising" as a multigenerational movement, describing young people as "children of the resistance.": zps.la/3Fe9dhK
In 2022, scholar Catherine Z. Sameh wrote about Iran’s feminist movement, shedding light on the complex history of women’s struggles since the 1979 revolution—and explaining how women and girls showed a “different path forward”: zps.la/3VNQK2a
What is our responsibility for our government’s wars? As the U.S. and Israel strike Iran, Zócalo looks back at the sobering question from 2022, part of our series, “How Should Societies Remember Their Sins?” zps.la/3PAWd9H
Columnist @californiajoe.bsky.social, a convert to the cause of California independence, wanted to love “One Battle After Another.” But as someone who makes a living by visiting all corners of this state, he found the film to be geographically confused. Read his take: zps.la/3MZO9nc
To enter a war, you need to go in with your eyes wide open, said Lt. General (ret.) Robert E. Schmidle Jr. He breaks down why the U.S. fought a war “not necessarily related to the facts on the ground” in Iraq. youtube.com/shorts/I7id3...
The Trump administration boasts of 1.9 million people voluntarily "self-deporting." But, writes author Evelyn Iritani, "these decisions are no more voluntary than the ones made by thousands of Japanese immigrants and their families eight decades ago." zps.la/4l0rSC7
Sixty years after ELIZA, the original therapy chatbot, was introduced, columnist @jasmansky.bsky.social explores the lessons for today's ChatGPT world. zps.la/4cPTnwe
Since Russia's invasion, Ukraine's farmers have continued to cultivate Europe's breadbasket, driving tractors through minefields and under drones. Legacies of War's Kendall Silwonuk on their patriotism and resistance: zps.la/4qVVPEM
Deliberative democracy is officially entangled in California’s bureaucracy.
That’s very good news, writes columnist @californiajoe.bsky.social. zps.la/4qMrzMx
Writer Ahmed Naji is an Egyptian exile living in the U.S. He reflects on censorship and repression of cultural life in both his home country and today's America. zps.la/4aHGRfH
Every Friday, Zócalo publishes a new poem. Read "The Kingfisher" by Rick Barot. zps.la/4cDDMQh
Milan's Winter Games are coming to a close this Sunday. Classics scholar Jacques A. Bromberg on the symbolism and limitations of the Olympic Truce: zps.la/3ZFurQq
For her Sketchbook, illustrator Adrienne Lobl imagined up flowers that could bite back. zps.la/4aAlHA2
Behind the opening of a $28 million community center in Gonzales, a California city with fewer than 9,000, is the story of a town that gave real power to a city council of teenagers. zps.la/4rPu7uf
ICE activity in Minneapolis got classics scholar Edward Watts thinking about the events that turned Roman armies against the ancient republic's own citizens. zps.la/4roAtBg
Artists Athletes Activists founder Power Malu discusses how food adapts and connects across cultures, blurring the line between cultural exchange and cultural appropriation. youtube.com/shorts/Oknd-...
Were the ancient people as hung up about love and sex as we are today? Classics professor Robert Garland on our timeless appetites and impulses. zps.la/4kwvj3d
Read a recap of our recent program, where we went hiking with @latimes.com reporters @jaclyncosgrove.bsky.social and Deborah Vankin at Placerita Canyon. zps.la/lathike
Do you feel like you don’t have any rights anymore?
Me, too, writes columnist @californiajoe.bsky.social. He makes the case for why we should all look to city halls to enshrine our rights. zps.la/4rdfwcg
In the 1980s, an offroad dirt-biking group bucked the rules in the California desert—and got away with it. Today's anti-environmentalists are following in their tracks, writes anthropologist @jsizek.bsky.social. zps.la/4aj4DOT
"I’m spending my phone’s entire battery" by Ellen Doré Watson is our newest #poem, selected by February poetry curator Barbara Ras. zps.la/4kheCsw
