Affirmative Action
Affirmative action policies ask colleges and universities to help correct society’s failures in dealing with racial disparities. Most of us can agree that decent [...
Category: Social policy
The Four Freedoms
In January 1941 Europe was already at war. Germany armies were spreading across Europe and into Russia. Japan was swallowing up the Dutch East...
Social Security
Social Security was never intended to FINANCE us in our ‘golden’ years…it was intended to SUPPLEMENT our retirement income…to provide a safety net. But [&helli...
Vagrancy/Homelessness
Somewhere along the way we have empathized on our way into a homelessness crisis. In Los Angeles County 10 million residents skirt around the...
Indigenous People
There is something in man’s DNA that encourages him to conquer and subjugate those he considers inferior. And anyone who doesn’t look like him, [&h...
The Second Amendment
In a time, long gone, when we were British colonists, promising fealty to the English king, their soldiers could enter our homes and confiscate...
Racism
A Decade of Summer / A Century of Winter What I have trouble understanding is how we got from muskets to AR-15 assault weapons...
The Double V
A Simple Letter Early on a quiet Sunday morning an armada of Japanese ships and airplanes attacked American military bases at Pearl Harbor on...
College Debt
My purpose in writing Snippets is to provide context for current issues…how did we get here. This particular Snippet will be different since there [...
Title IX
It’s easy to forget the storm surrounding the implementation of Title IX, but to colleges and universities…and to generations of women, its effect has [&h...