UC Santa Barbara Magazine features stories and visuals that highlight some of the people, programs, scholarly pursuits and cultural endeavors that make UC Santa Barbara a world-class institution. It also casts a wider net, aspiring not only to bring readers onto campus through its pages, but also to place the university in the world by examining issues, trends and topics of broad relevance, interest and impact.
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Democracy is more fragile than you think
The rise in authoritarian attitudes is coming from the right and the left.
“I realized I was a conduit for their voices”
If pictures speak louder than words, Richard Ross’s photographs are nothing softer than a roar.
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