Larry Livermore

The Mandate Of Hell

Students of Chinese history will be familiar with the mandate of heaven (天命 – tiānmìng), but the concept can be

Quite a few friends, especially those primed for a midlife crisis but for whom a red convertible or summer in

There’s a period of my life, almost five years, when there’s no proof I existed. From 1966 I’ve got a

Things were looking grim. I had to get out of town in a hurry, but I had no money, and

Wait, they’re shooting white kids now? It might not have been phrased exactly that way, but that was the subliminal

The title is a bit clickbaity, I’ll admit, maybe even misleading. The word “hippie” has been so broadly used and

I woke up this morning wondering how my life might have been different if I had learned to read from

When I was living in San Francisco in the mid-1970s, we’d get leaflets stuck under our front door inviting us

Over the past few years I’ve traveled to China seven times. I’ve visited ten major cities, some of them multiple

Some younger (mostly in their 30s and 40s) friends are having a lively shelter-in-place internet debate over who “the most