Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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A honeypot feels like desire fulfilled, not danger approaching. I’ve been binge-watching Lioness the past week, and I am finally caught up through Season 3. My aunt first told me about the show, and I quickly understood why she thought I would enjoy it. The politics and life lessons come fast. Some are obviously about…
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The world noticed Bad Bunny because he refused to disappear inside it. I first discovered Bad Bunny for myself in December 2019 at Fifty Eight, the downstairs oceanfront lounge at La Concha Resort. A song came through the speakers that immediately caught my attention, so I pulled out my phone, opened Shazam, and learned that…
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If universities refuse to replace research funding lost to political discrimination, they cannot punish the scholars whose work the government erased. This week, I attended a meeting of Cardinal Courage, a nonpartisan, multigenerational coalition of Stanford alumni and allies working to defend academic freedom and resist political interference in universities. As a Stanford alumnus, I…
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When Dolly Parton died, the world did not begin by counting her 10 Grammys or 55 nominations. All the remembrances began with the lives she changed. People remembered the children who received free books because her father never learned to read. They remembered the jobs she created in the mountains that raised her and the…
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The classic line from the Spider-Man show was, “Lookout! Here comes the Spider-Man.” And so, Spider-Man punched a white supremacist. Fist to cheese. For some exhausted by racism and intimidation, the image probably felt satisfying. But there is a problem that extends beyond superheroes and comic books. The white supremacist wants the punch. He wants…
Cloaking Inequity 
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