On February 10, 2011, Elizabeth A. Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History, delivered the CRCC Annual Lecture to an enthusiastic crowd of faculty and graduate students. Her paper, “Women and the Family in the Nineteenth-Century...
Voice of America News reported on the American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute and its efforts to train a new generation of civic leaders. Brie Loskota is the managing director for the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, which created...
A few weeks ago I walked into my hometown Ralph's grocery store in a suburb of Los Angeles and found Homeboy Industries chips and salsas in the deli section. Delicious, hot, crispy and full of ethical goodness--yum! Just in time...
Daily Variety quoted Richard Flory's blog in an article about Super Bowl commercials. Richard Flory, a professor of sociology at USC, recently wrote about "The New Politics of Fear," which have "begun to dominate legislative bodies from the local to...
Although there are still some lingering questions from last November about the role that values-voters played in the midterm elections--for example, were moral issues trumped by personal financial interests?--more recently, a new politics of fear has begun to dominate legislative...