Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Lauter is the Los Angeles Times’ Washington bureau chief. He began writing news in Washington in 1981 and since then has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White House under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and four U.S. presidential campaigns. He lived in L.A. from 1995 to 2011, where he had several editing roles, including deputy foreign editor and assistant managing editor responsible for California coverage.

Goldberg is the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times. He is a former editor of the Op-Ed page and the Sunday Opinion section and, at New York Newsday in the 1980s and 1990s, a former Middle East correspondent and political reporter. His writing has been published in the New Republic, New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Nation, Sunday Times of London and Washington Monthly, among other places.  He is a graduate of Harvard University.

Hochschild is an American sociologist and academic. She is professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions which underlie moral beliefs, practices, and social life generally. She is the author of nine books including, most recently “Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right,” a finalist for the National Book Award, “The Second... Read More →

Horowitz is founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and has written numerous NYT bestsellers including his latest book "Big Agenda.” Camille Paglia, an independent leftist, calls Horowitz "one of America's most original and courageous political analysts," reflecting that "as a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey... Read More →