2018 Fall Culture Shift
Diversity, Not Drama: Q&A With UC Davis’s Chancellor Gary May
Gary S. May became the seventh chancellor of University of California, Davis last year—and the first African-American chancellor in the school’s history. May, who received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley in 1991, had served as the dean of the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology prior […]
Editor’s Note: We’re on the Road to…Somewhere
When I was a kid, it seemed like all adults smoked. Cigarette butts littered the sidewalks, the stench of stale tobacco clung to the upholstery, and ashtrays were everywhere. We made ashtrays in art class as gifts for our parents. Back then, people smoked in their offices, their cars, and on airplanes. On airplanes! In […]
Meet Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry’s New Miracle Materials
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers. They can also pull water from desert air. A chief characteristic of MOFs, which some have been called “miracle materials,” is how much […]
Rewriting History, Making Herstory
By June of this year, the #MeToo movement had been bumped from both headlines and headspace by weird, convulsive, and disorienting stories—families separated at the border, trade wars erupting, regressive Supreme Court decisions, and intense and distracting hand-wringing over restaurant owners and patrons making mealtime awkward for members of the Trump administration. As early wildfires […]
Smile! You’re On Candid Camera Phone
It was many years ago, when I worked in a large city and I often had to walk several blocks from one large office complex to another during the course of the average work day. One afternoon I was trudging between buildings, head bent, lost in thought; I passed the entrance to a small, dark […]
Politically Homeless: Q&A With Columnist Max Boot
CALIFORNIA Magazine: In the prologue of your new book, The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, you say you are now “perceiving ugly truths about America and about conservatism that other people had long seen but I turned a blind eye to.” What are some of those ugly truths? Max Boot: As an […]
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