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The night I ambushed Thomas Sowell
It wasn't always easy getting to interview the great economist, but it was always worth it. Larry Elder is urging President Trump to give Sowell, 94, a…
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John Taylor Gatto: Unlikely Guerrilla
The award-winning public school teacher and hero of home schoolers was a gentle, brilliant subversive who did all he could to free kids from the prison…
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My sober evenings with Bukowski
The poet laureate of L.A.'s brothels and taco stands, who died in 1994, read his poetry, got drunk and put on his infamous one-man show for the last…
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Flyover America -- According to New Yorkers
For 50 years John Steinbeck and his fellow travelers set sail into the hinterlands from New York City with the same cargo of elitist clichés about…
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Megyn Kelly, journalist
The former Fox star, former NBC star and current star of her own podcast is an infinitely smarter and better journalist than 98 percent of the people in…
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Steinbeck, me & the pursuit of 'true nonfiction'
In September of 2010 I set out to follow the route John Steinbeck took exactly 50 years earlier for what became his iconic road book Travels With…
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Remembering the brief but glorious life of George magazine (1995-2001)
From 1988 to 2007 I wrote a weekly column on magazines for the LA Times, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Trib. Here are three I wrote about…
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John Steinbeck loved Montana in 1960, but it was just a two-night stand
As I show in Dogging Steinbeck, Montana had a cameo in the author's iconic road book Travels With Charley
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Memories of a socialist supermarket
My grim tour of East Berlin’s gray streets and empty stores in 1988 taught me all I needed to know about everyday life under Soviet-style socialism…
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The 2025 'Snow White' wakes up woke -- and goes to sleep
The 2025 remake of Disney's 1937 classic cost the company $300 million and pissed off women, minorities and especially dwarfs. The current contro brings…
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Remembering Town Hall’s historic Jim Crow debate 75 years later
75 years ago tonight a historic radio debate about the future of America's oppressive system of apartheid was broadcast live across the country…
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The real Jerry Buss was a smart, rich and fun-loving LA sports mogul
In 1984 the owner of the Lakers and future featured character in HBO's current hit series 'Winning Time -- The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty' was still…
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