Journal of Alta California

Alta is Much More Than This Magazine

Sometimes I like to say that Alta covers the past and the future, but not the present. This is somewhat in jest. The truth is that, as a quarterly, it’s virtually impossible to keep up with current events. But we are interested in how the world got this way and what might

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