Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • The warning signs are no longer theoretical. Schools are closing. Colleges are preparing layoffs. Faculty buyouts are spreading. Academic programs are disappearing. Dorm beds are sitting empty. Classrooms are thinning out. Tax revenue is weakening. State appropriations are uncertain. Consultants are being hired and paid millions to identify “efficiencies.” Boards are quietly discussing mergers and…

    The Education Hunger Games: Who Survives?
  • In American history, ‘socialism’ has been one of the most politically radioactive words in the nation’s vocabulary. Yet today, democratic socialists have become one of the most influential factions within the Democratic Party. American politics has a long history of insurgent movements that challenge the leadership of their own political parties before reshaping national debates.…

    America at 250: Is the Left Having Its Tea Party Moment?
  • Have you ever trusted someone to do what they said they would… only to discover that, when it mattered most, they didn’t? Now ask yourself the same question about an organization. When I was in elementary school, one of my teachers insisted on reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books to our class every afternoon…

    When the Wagons Circle
  • Some films entertain us for two hours. Others quietly measure the passage of our lives. There are very few film franchises that can honestly claim they have accompanied an entire generation from childhood into parenthood, but Toy Story is one of them. I still remember watching the original Toy Story in the 1990s, and I…

    Toy Story 5 Review: More Than a Movie, A Reflection on Technology and Family
  • Given enough time something will eventually go wrong. For years I have been fascinated by science fiction stories in which someone discovers a way to send a message into the future. Those stories usually ask the same question. If you could send messages to people who have not yet been born what would you say?…

    Time Travel Is Real. We Just Call It a Statement.

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