Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig

  • Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler become the Black writer some liberals want Black intellectuals to read? Why are these particular essays, the ones questioning DEI, affirmative…

    He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.
  • Today, Stanford Graduate School of Education announced that I will receive its 2026 Alumni Excellence in Education Award. The award recognizes alumni whose research, teaching, leadership, and entrepreneurship have advanced education and strengthened communities. I am deeply humbled that my former doctoral advisor, Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, nominated me and that Stanford selected me for this…

    2026 Stanford Alumni Award: The Journey Was Never Mine Alone
  • It’s 2:45 am and I had to send this. Jason Arday, former Cambridge professor, is dead at forty-one. He died before the investigations publicly concluded, before the public learned the difference between accusation and finding, and before the noise had a chance to subside. Police have described his death as unexpected but not suspicious, and…

    The Death of Jason Arday
  • He told you that you were in this together. In reality, he was using you as cover. In July 2026, President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in full view of cameras after attending a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Once aboard, however, he reportedly exited through another door, entered an airport catering truck, and…

    Trump Escaped in a Catering Truck. Real Leaders Don’t Make Their People Decoys.
  • The voices we remember most clearly are often the ones power tried hardest to silence. I recently watched the 2015 Netflix documentary about Nina Simone. Simone was one of the most gifted artists of the twentieth century, but she refused to separate her art from the struggle for justice. She understood that music could comfort…

    The Uppity Minority: They Can’t Control You Once You Stop Being Afraid

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