Stories
The Hard Work of Hope
Higher education is under more scrutiny than ever before, says Thomas Poon, Ph.D., LMU’s new president. But offering a university education rooted in the Catholic, Jesuit, and Marymount traditions is more essential than ever.
Deconstructing Cruelty
Acts of shocking cruelty seem horrific and beyond the border of basic humanity. But the dehumanizing mindset that permits them may be reversible.
Our Neighborhood Ghost Town
Nearby Surfridge is LMU’s connection to a forgotten part of L.A.’s past.
Math Values
Math professor Lily Khadjavi teaches students to apply mathematics to solving society’s social justice problems.
Inside the Immigration Crisis
When the federal government launched immigration raids in Los Angeles, many residents avoided shopping, going to work, and even attending church. Instead, they stayed indoors for fear of arrest and deportation. We talk with three experts who are working in communities that have been targeted.
When Power Attacks Art
After taking power in 1933, the Nazis attacked many German artists and arts institutions for polluting the nation’s culture and redirected society’s institutions to enforce their ideology.
Our Eyes On the Skies
The James Webb Space Telescope takes us even deeper into the universe, and its past, than the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Questions For AI
MacArthur Fellow Safiya Umoja Noble says artificial intelligence, like other algorithmic technologies, is best approached critically.
Psalm For Our Lady Queen of the Angels
Dana Gioia, poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, recites his poem about Los Angeles, an homage to “the restless, the hungry, the stubborn, the scarred” who built the city of his birth.
Know Your Place
Your place, and the roots you put there, help make you who you are, whether you’re a person, a magazine, or a university.
Dana Gioia on Poetry and His L.A. Roots
Poet Dana Gioia, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, talks about his L.A. roots and his Catholicism, and he reads two poems from his latest collection, “Meet Me at the Lighthouse.”