Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Higher education is one of the most powerful investments a person can make. Beyond the classroom, college develops critical thinking, cultivates creativity, and builds the habits of inquiry and collaboration that fuel innovation. On the financial side, the payoff has been well-documented: degree holders typically earn more over their lifetimes, experience lower unemployment, and have…
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“We are living through a very dangerous time.” James Baldwin began A Talk to Teachers with those words in October 1963, addressing a group of New York City educators just weeks after some of the most searing events of the civil rights era. That year, Medgar Evers was gunned down in his driveway by a white supremacist…
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Jeffrey Wright’s character delivers a searing truth in the new Apple+ film Highest or Lowest alongside Denzel Washington: you either build or you destroy, beloved. The line is simple but devastating in its clarity. It refuses neutrality. It tells us that in life, in politics, and in community, there are only two directions. You are either contributing…
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Historians have long asked a haunting question about the rise of authoritarian regimes: How did the “good Germans” let it happen? How did ordinary people who loved their families, went to work each day, and saw themselves as decent and moral allow their country to descend into cruelty and authoritarinism? It is a question that…
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When the Trump-appointed chair of the FCC publicly threatened ABC with regulatory retaliation unless it punished Jimmy Kimmel for a monologue about Charlie Kirk, the move shocked the entertainment industry and nation. Within hours, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air “indefinitely.” What should have been dismissed as satire became treated as sedition. Free speech groups…
Cloaking Inequity 