Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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Texas Rangers 6, Toronto Blue Jays 4 (14 innings).

If Barack Obama had a son, he'd look like Chris. (See here.)

To the Editor:

I’m puzzled by David Brooks’s concern that the “careerist tide” is drowning emotional, spiritual and moral education (“The Big University,” column, Oct. 6). Seriously?

Nearly all my students work one or two jobs to pay for school, leave college with significant debt, and enter a labor market in which the benefits of rising productivity have gone exclusively to the wealthiest. Yet conservatives oppose the very policies that would reduce student debt, make college affordable or increase their prospective wages.

To chastise universities’ focus on careers rather than humanities in the aftermath of decades of conservative policies that exacerbated inequality is disingenuous.

MARK K. CASSELL

Kent, Ohio

The writer is a professor of political science at Kent State University.

Note from KBJ: Yes, it's all the fault of conservatives. Who has been president for the past six and three-quarters years (and 14.75 of the past 22.75)?

Here I am on the Old Presque Isle Lighthouse grounds, being punished for some transgression. Click to enlarge.

So Bruce Jenner is now a tranny. He has male genitalia and female breasts, dresses like a woman, and says he's (still) attracted to women. Does he get to go into women's bathrooms? If so, then, given his attraction, he can leer at the women and they won't be able to do a thing about it. See here for the consequence of this craziness.

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Texas Rangers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 3.

To the Editor:

Re “11 Pacific Nations and U.S. Endorse Giant Trade Pact” (front page, Oct. 6):

Though it is likely to be cast as a struggle between trade and jobs, or between Wall Street and labor, the debate about the Trans-Pacific Partnership should also be about uncertainty and catastrophic risk in an increasingly turbulent 21st century. Economists and most political scientists have assumed that it is good to remove barriers. But much as removing natural barriers can expose ecosystems to invasive species that decimate their diversity, globalization threatens local and regional economic diversity.

Is it wise to be selling resource-intensive American beef in Asia and importing exotic produce from around the world? If these drive much local and regional production out of business, what happens when global climate chaos degrades California or Iowa and world prices suddenly rise? The result could be food shortage or famine in poor countries, after the Trans-Pacific Partnership had ruined local farmers and emptied their countryside. Is a global market for goods, capital and information stable and innovative? May it not induce crashes and incite extremism?

Congress should reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership and rethink globalization.

DAVID KEPPEL

Bloomington, Ind.

Note from KBJ: Free trade has been a disaster for this country. It enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor. It destroys industries, communities, and families. It undermines American sovereignty. It prevents us from protecting and preserving what is distinctive about this nation and its culture. The Left loves free trade because it promotes cosmopolitanism and undermines American sovereignty. The Right loves free trade because it enriches multinational corporations. Open borders and free trade will be the death of this country. Think twice before you support these abominations.