The president of Stanford University issued an apology this week for school policies that intentionally limited Jewish student admissions in the 1950s.
Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne apologized on behalf of the university and pledged action on recommendations in a task force report confirming Stanford limited the admission of Jewish students in the 1950s.
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John Quin
, April 3rd, 2021 09:26
John Quin admires Joan Didion’s late collection
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Here’s Joan Didion on roving reporter mode at a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in Gardenia, the draw-poker capital of Los Angeles County. A penitent says their ideal, the aim of the programme, is “getting serenity”. Didion balks at that: she associates serenity with death. Joan doesn’t do
serenity: she’s been proven right in her anxieties for decades.
It’s 2021 and entirely appropriate to be nervous now. Didion, perhaps more than any other contemporary American writer, grasps the sadness in the deluded idea of the good life and