Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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The Super Bowl has always been more than football. It is a ritual, a spectacle, a national performance. It’s where America tells the world who it thinks it is, and who it wants to be. Which is why the announcement that Bad Bunny will host the halftime show is far more significant than a musical…
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One of the defining dangers of the Trump regime is its willingness to treat the Constitution as optional, something to be worked around rather than obeyed. Detaining citizens without proper due process is the clearest example of this mindset. What the government and its defenders often suggest is that these violations are minor, temporary, or…
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Trump’s New “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” Isn’t American at All—It’s Chinese
It was not proudly announced at a press conference or rolled out in a White House event. Instead, the media uncovered that the administration had quietly asked nine universities, including Penn, Vanderbilt, MIT, Dartmouth, USC, Arizona, Brown, Texas, and Virginia, to sign on to a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The language…
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History has a way of whispering warnings to us if we are willing to listen. Patterns repeat themselves across continents and decades, and those who pay attention can see when old power plays are being dusted off for new audiences. One of the clearest patterns in the authoritarian playbook throughout history is the military loyalty…
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I was a history major as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and history has taught me this: courage rarely gives advance notice. It does not arrive with a calendar appointment or a warning bell. Instead, it breaks into our lives suddenly, when the air is thick with uncertainty and the path forward feels…
Cloaking Inequity 