Yascha on California

 Journalist Yascha Levine has written some great essays (and he has a movie too, Pistachio Wars) about oligarchs in California.

This one starts with legendary California land baron Henry Miller.

This one exposes how unnatural Southern California is.

This one shows how the Resnick's built their pistachio business on the sanctioning of Iran (the previous major producer of pistachios) and therefore has a shared interest with Israel.