Zócalo Public Square

Should Congress Pass the Korea Free Trade Agreement?

Can the Ports Clean the Air Without Choking the Economy?

An Evening with Larry Wilmore

Hail to the Chief?

Can the L.A. Times be Saved?

Can Progressives Save Iraq?

Who Really Runs L.A.?

Alix Ohlin, “Why Mysteries Matter: Detectives, Literature, and Life”

Eric Alterman, “Is Democracy in America Even Possible?”

“Tuning in the Broadband Channel: How the Internet Is Remaking the TV Business”

Jim Newton, “Earl Warren and the Californiaization of America”

“L.A. vs. New York: Who’s Got the Scoop on Hollywood?”

Historian and LA Times columnist Max Boot visits Zócalo to discuss how innovations in weaponry and tactics have not only transformed how wars are fought and won but also have guided the course of human events, from the formation of the first modern states 500 years ago, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the coming of al-Qaeda. The award-winning author of The Savage Wars of Peace, and the recently published War Made New, Boot will put forth a new intellectual framework for understanding contemporary geopolitics as well as examine what America must do to survive and prevail in the Information Age.

Moderated by Andrés Martinez, Los Angeles Times Editorial Page Editor Niall Ferguson courts controversy. One of the most brilliant economic and military historians of his generation, the British Harvard professor and L.A. Times columnist has written books comparing the “per kill” cost of World War I armies, and praising the British empire. Ferguson’s The Pity of War was a sensation in Britain for its assertion that the country would have been better off staying out of World War I. A prolific contributor to such publications as Time and The New Yorker and author of several books–including the recently published The War of the World–Ferguson visits Zócalo to discuss everything from Günter Grass’s past to the amateurish American empire.

Antonio Damasio, "Understanding Emotions and the Brain" by Zócalo Public Square

Can Hollywood Survive the Internet? A Discussion with the Los Angeles Times Editorial Pages by Zócalo Public Square

An Evening with Culture Clash

Patty Stonesifer, “All Kids College Ready: What Will it Take to Ensure that Our Public Education System Prepares All Children?”

An Evening With Dean Baquet

Tamar Jacoby, “Fixing America’s Immigration System”