Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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I recently told a family member who has been reading my blog: I don’t hate Donald Trump. I don’t hate the Proud Boys. I don’t even hate the Christian nationalists who shout Bible verses while clenching AR-15s and making muscles. Hate is what they want. Hate and grievance is what they feed on. It’s the…
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How do you know what information to trust? It’s a deceptively simple question. And lately, it’s one I hear more and more—especially from Right Wing-leaning friends and family who claim that “you can’t trust any of it anymore.” They talk about fake news, media manipulation, and digital censorship. They doubt the Census, question school data,…
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They don’t always say it out loud. But if you’ve been a leader, you learn to read the signs. The soft smiles. The slow blinks. The way people praise your convictions in private—right before distancing themselves. It’s the same pattern that leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. faced: celebrated for their ideals, shunned for…
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According to media reports and other sources circulating widely on the internet, a disturbing and deeply revealing incident has taken place at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. A student has allegedly submitted a final paper in a constitutional law class arguing that the U.S. Constitution applies only to white people and Jews—and…
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Turkey, Hungary, China, Russia, Egypt—and Florida. The names of these places might evoke different geographies, languages, and histories, but in one crucial area they increasingly speak the same language: authoritarian control over universities. In each, political power has been used to reshape higher education into a compliant tool of state ideology. Once autonomous institutions—grounded in…
Cloaking Inequity 