Listing of submitted articles in alphabetical order:
Apocalypse Perhaps: California Exceptionalism in the Crucible of the 1990s - By John McFarland, Sierra College
To the rest of the country, California’s most annoying tic is their insistence on being special. They make few friends with their catalogues of grandeur: the economy that outranks Italy’s; the kitchens in which popular culture is cooked up and the skills at orchestrating national trends, all of this privileged by an asserted immunity from the demands history makes on more mundane beings...
Et Tu Bureaucracy - By John McFarland, Sierra College
There is no shortage of explanations when the inexplicable happens. Hence the chatter in Sacramento when Governor Schwarzenegger did the unthinkable. His without-warning call for an end to public-employee pensions, when fiscally unnecessary and politically risky, defies logic...
Gone With the Windbag - By John McFarland, Sierra College
There are still emeritus faculty around who remember when our colleges were designated “junior,” and were commanded in most cases by a sovereign president. He reigned into the 1960s on some campuses, where he could punish or even fire an instructor over such breaches of taste as beard cultivation...
