In 1998, Tania Cepero Lopez surrendered herself at Miami International Airport as a Cuban refugee. She was a 19-year-old with a dream to become an educator. In the U.S. she believed she could freely teach ideas — even if they triggered debate or discomfort — without fear of repression from the government. For some time, Cepero Lopez lived out that dream as a professor at Florida International…

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      Absolutely fucking not.

      It doesn’t matter if the food court is usually pretty good, all things considered, but the mall is currently on fire. Do not visit.

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        I know this isn’t what you meant, but I want to clarify something: it varies university to university, but our food court was ass.

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        The US’s beginning levels of public education are probably some of the worst in the Western world, but its higher education at the high levels is some of the best in the Western world.

        As is often true of the best things, the bestness is not because of the bestness of the thing, but because of what it connects with. The universities themselves honestly really aren’t great. But what happens in them is often extraordinary, because they’re able to attract the brightest people from across the world, and give them a place and let them shine.

        Well, until now.