[contextly_auto_sidebar] LIKE a lot of people, I was originally baffled when I moved to California, which in my case was 20 years ago, this July. Some of the key to its complex code arrived in the books of historian Kevin Starr, which begin with statehood and move epoch-by-epoch to the early post-World War II years. Today I have a sort of appreciation of the man, who I regret to say I met … [Read more...]