Peter Richardson

I guess it was inevitable. I teach a class that focuses on utopian and dystopian representations of California, so how could I avoid the Gr...

Elbert Ventura has written a very good review of A Bomb in Every Issue for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas . By very good, I don't mean...

Looks like I'll be moving back to the East Bay soon--Richmond, to be precise, a couple of miles away from where I grew up. Which puts m...

Yes, they threw ANOTHER house out the window, this time in Berkeley. The Berkeley Public Library Foundation hosted what can only be describ...

Man, that was fun for me. Jonathan Hall of the San Francisco Public Library threw the house out the window (as my students in Texas used to...

This just in: Robert Fulford of the Canadian National Post weighed in on the Ramparts book in this opinion piece . He describes the magazi...

Sol Stern's piece on Ramparts was quickly picked up by Ron Radosh at Pajamas Media and David Horowitz's staff at FrontPage . I re...

Sol Stern, one of Ramparts magazine's key staff writers, just published a piece in City Journal on the magazine and its legacy. Sol ...

I missed Alice McGrath's memorial party in Ventura, but my daughter Ashley, who met Alice last year, said it was very inspiring. The t...

I'm listening to my interview with Rose Aguilar on KALW's "Your Call." We taped it last month before Rose left for a lon...