Peter Richardson

I took a couple of hours out of the mini-book tour to take in a movie ( Match Point ) in Santa Monica with Adrian Maher. Adrian hosted me w...

I leave tomorrow for Los Angeles and the All Things McWilliams book tour. Monday I'll be at Cal State Northridge, courtesy of Rudy Acuna...

Last May I participated in a great conference at UCLA on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles. If these eve...

I've been thinking more about the role of passion in American politics. Although it's encouraged now, passion isn't the word th...

Gray Brechin has a great sentence about discovering Carey McWilliams: "For those of us who lean unapologetically to the left as it flow...

Good question. He's the most important American writer you've probably never heard of, especially if you were born after 1960. (If ...

Here's where I'll be talking about Carey McWilliams in the coming weeks and months. Saturday, June 17--Dawson's Book Shop, Los ...

I had to relaunch the blog due to technical trouble. I'd like to take a moment to mourn those penetrating but unsaved insights ... Okay...