GORLICK: Half-truths from the Bullied Pulpit

In this world we live in right now, voicing a belief apparently requires caution. Scrutiny from peers is to be expected. What has changed is the scrutiny we face beyond campus.

GORLICK: Rebuilding from Babel

Humanity is a language I believe all of us speak.

GORLICK: Embracing un-scheduling

Some people use GCal. Others use pretty planners and agendas. Truth be told, I never did get good enough at using either.

GORLICK: California is burning. We all have a choice.

We began 2025 ablaze.  The winds reached over 90 miles per hour. Our windows, locked and bolted, blew open in the middle of the night. […]

GORLICK: To meet an invisible metric

You do not have to prove anything else. You intrinsically possess that unique ability to clear hurdles into oblivion as you become all that you undertake. If you want to meet and exceed the next set of invisible metrics, continue being you. You possess the talent but you must relinquish the belief that you control the situation and its outcomes. And when — not if — we have setbacks in the future, we must remember that they do not constitute failures on our part or reflections of our value.

GORLICK: The greatest problem facing our world

The greatest problem facing our world is not mass hunger or poverty. It is not climate change or racism or prejudice or war or terrorism. It is one, six letter word, more influential and leveling than all of these factors combined. It possesses profound destructive power, but its remedy could fundamentally change the trajectory of our world.

GORLICK: Demystifying the Trump-witch paradox

It is within this era-specific political rhetoric and culture that we find one of Donald Trump’s recurring outcries: the world is a witch hunt, all political opponents are enemies and accusers and — most significantly — he, Donald Trump, is the one true and tragic witch.