Conversations

Rudy deLeon ’74 capped a 25-year career in government defense policy as the No. 2 official in the Department of Defense in the Clinton administration. deLeon talks about the foreign policy challenges facing the new Biden administration.

Ivan Ehlers has produced work for The New Yorker, MAD Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. But rejection is part of the job, he says, and studying psychology at LMU has come in handy.

The focus of the November 2020 election is mainly on the White House. But for the party that fails to win the presidency, controlling the U.S. Senate will be paramount. Prof. Richard Fox examines the scenarios.

David Romero, S.J., an LMU alumnus of 2009 and newly ordained Jesuit, talks about his image of God, the challenge of Jesuit formation and why he joined the Society of Jesus.

Stefan Bradley, chair of African American Studies, talks about the killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter movement and the fight against racism in America.

The coronavirus has upended every aspect of U.S. education. Kevin Baxter M.A. ’01, chief innovation officer of the National Catholic Educational Association, discusses the pandemic’s impact on Catholic schools.

A century ago, the 1918 flu ravaged the world’s population. There was no vaccine and quarantining was essential. Carla Bittel, an LMU historian, talks about the lessons the world learned that may help today.

Kate Pickert, an assistant professor of journalism and English in the LMU Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, is a former staff writer who covered health care policy for Time magazine. Pickert is the author of “Radical: The Science, Culture, and…

Ron Galperin holds the office of Controller of the City of Los Angeles, a post to which he was first elected in 2013 and re-elected in 2017. As controller, he is the paymaster, auditor and chief accounting officer for the…

Derrick Gathers, brother of Hank Gathers, why Hank was admired as much for who he was off the basketball court as he was for what he accomplished on the court.