2026 Digital Winter Issue

When Power Attacks Art

Our Neighborhood Ghost Town

The Hard Work of Hope

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 Neighborhood Ghost Town

Nearby Surfridge is LMU’s connection to a forgotten part of L.A.’s past.

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.

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.

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.

Math Values

Math professor Lily Khadjavi teaches students to apply mathematics to solving society’s social justice problems.

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.