Thanksgiving can be a time of both tradition and innovation. I’m particularly proud of coming up with this one to go with a loosely Asian themed Thanksgiving dinner with some international friends.

She was a force of love, energy, frustration, and constant curiosity in my life. As her grandson, it’s kind of hard to see her as anything other than a grandmother. When we were going through old photographs, I couldn’t believe that it was a middle aged woman with me in her arms; she was never that young!

“Delta” and “Change” are used synonymously in business meetings—usually by men who work in the finance department but occasionally by other people who interact with the finance department too often. The reason they say “delta” is that a delta is used to represent change in mathematical equations as easy Greek shorthand. However, said out loud in a meeting, “delta” has just as many syllables as…

Affirmative action is over, all but ensuring that America’s elite colleges will become more white, insular, and privileged. These elite colleges are gateways to power in our…