**Mike Davis *is the author of City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Buda's Wagon,and Planet of Slums . He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego. Jon Wieneris a longtime Contributing Editor at the Nation and host and producer of Start Ma...

**Mike Davis *is the author of City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Buda's Wagon,and Planet of Slums . He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in San Diego. Jon Wieneris a longtime Contributing Editor at the Nation and host and producer of Start Making Sense, the magazine's weekly podcast. He is an Emeritus Professor of U.S. history at UC Irvine, and his books include Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files and How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America *. He lives in Los Angeles.