Splitting California

by K. E. Colombini

Ever since California joined the union in 1850, efforts have been made to split the state. Continue Reading »

2 May 2018

Padre Mestizo

by Richard Rodriguez

On September 11, 2017, between midnight and dawn, a statue of Fr. Junípero Serra—whom generations of California schoolchildren called “the Father of California”—was beheaded at Mission Santa Barbara. Reading about the defiled statue in the paper, I immediately question my father, my . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

Goodbye California: A Lament

by Wesley J. Smith

Last week, I moved from California to the Washington, D.C. area. I don’t expect to return. Alas, I don’t want to return. Continue Reading »

17 Feb 2017

Remembering Kevin Starr, Catholic Historian

by Stephen Schwartz

For most of his career, Starr viewed the California experiment benevolently, as a phenomenon balanced between utopia and reason. But he was an intense Catholic believer who seems finally to have despaired of California’s grandiloquent and heartbreaking destiny. Continue Reading »

18 Jan 2017

“I Don't Find Dignity in Taking My Own Life”

by J. David Nolan

Imagine receiving a letter telling you that while your insurance company won’t pay for experimental drugs to combat your cancer, they’d be happy to cover lethal drugs to help you die. You want to try to live a little longer, but you're only offered funding to hasten death. This happened to . . . . Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2015