And as happens when major fires erupt in Los Angeles, radical (Marxist) urban historian Mike Davis’s 1998 book Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster is being shared.

One of the last times I spoke to the great Los Angeles writer Mike Davis was during the Woolsey ... I sooner recommend his follow-up, 1998’s Ecology of Fear, which is easier to dip into.

As someone who has read most of Davis' work and knew him personally, I can say that his writings were cris de coeur more than lamentations. He was less Jeremiah and more John the Baptist, preparing ...