Congressman Peter King, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will begin hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims on Thursday, March 10, 2011. Not only is this witch-hunt morally dubious, it is bad sociology. He is stereotyping an...
Several recent reports suggest that the evangelical Christian world, as we have come to know it over the last 30 years, may be changing forever. Much has been written since the last presidential election about the rise of a new...
With the recent retirement of Cardinal Roger Mahony, many assessments of both his accomplishments and shortcomings have--and will--be written. But any appraisal of Mahony’s contributions to the civic culture of Los Angeles is incomplete without a close examination of...
CRCC Executive Director Donald Miller participated in the forum, titled "Democracy and the Culture of Civic Conversation," kicking off the California Council for the Humanities' Searching for Democracy initiative. The forum and series of panels were held March 4, 2011,...
CRCC Managing Director Brie Loskota wrote an op-ed for the Huffington Post reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King beating. In the ashes of that event, the city examined its racial divisions, its class lines and the major...