The Brazilian government, possibly with an eye on Gringo affairs, has computerized its tax collections and issued six million color comix telling Brazilian schoolchildren what fun it is to pay taxes.
Black Studies programs have shrunk from 500 to 200 on American college campuses, and are still shrinking. At best, the programs were limited academically; at worst, they were a racket that enabled colleges to recruit athletes, fill quotas, and enjoy ideological thrills, without paying much attention to qualifications. Their decline signifies the growing normalization of the black student population; students are recognizing the importance of a more soundly conceived education for both graduate-school and career purposes. The same phasing-out process will undoubtedly begin some day with Women’s Studies and Indian (“Native American”) programs, bringing with it an increment of intellectual health to the academy as a whole.
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