California Sun Podcast
1) Mike Magee on building the world's most innovative university
Mike Magee is the president of Minerva University, which has earned the No. 1 ranking in the World University Rankings for Innovation for four consecutive years. Founded in San Francisco in 2012, Min...Show More
2) Tim Higgins on the battle to take down Apple
Tim Higgins discusses his new book "iWar," examining how one of California's corporate crown jewels, Apple, faces an unprecedented rebellion. Tech leaders such as Spotify's Daniel Ek and Epic's Tim Sw...Show More
3) Jeff Chang on Bruce Lee and the emergence of Asian American pride
Jeff Chang, in his new biography "Water Mirror Echo," explores how the short of life of Bruce Lee helped make Asian America. Born in San Francisco's Chinatown, Lee was denied the lead role in Warner ...Show More
4) Satsuki Ina on echoes of Japanese incarceration
Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire at Tule Lake, where she became one of roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Her parents, both U.S. citizens, lost their freedom a...Show More
5) Peter Jones explores privilege and vulnerability at a school for sons of the Los Angeles elite
Peter Jones turned his camera on his former classmates from the Harvard School for Boys, a former military academy for boys in Los Angeles, for his new documentary "Fortunate Sons," chronicling the li...Show More
6) Eve Quesnel on how nature always shows up
Eve Quesnel, author of the new book "Snow Fleas and Chickadees: Everyday Observations in the Sierra," joins us from her home in Truckee. For more than two decades, she's been paying close attention t...Show More
7) Scott Alan Lucas on San Francisco, misinformation, and the killing of Bob Lee
8) Jim Newton on freedom, community, Jerry Garcia, and the Grateful Dead
Jim Newton joins us to discuss his new book "Here Beside the Rising Tide," exploring how Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead emerged from 1960s California to become unlikely architects of America's cou...Show More
9) Sam Yerbi on L.A.'s decline and a path forward
Sam Yerbi, a young Yale-educated labor attorney and board president of the civic organization Thrive LA, offers a stark assessment of Los Angeles's decline. Yerbi arrived as a refugee from Iran to L.A...Show More
10) Matt Ritter and Michael Kaufman on California's iconic native trees
Matt Ritter, a botany professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and Michael Kaufman, a research plant ecologist, have written a new definitive guide to California's 95 native tree species, "California Tr...Show More