Dear Ivy League Transgender Climate Racial Studies Major,
I graduated from Columbia University in the mid-1970s, before the opportunity existed for me to study and major in the personally enriching fields of Transgender Studies, Climate and Carbon Windmill Studies, Racial Deconstruction and White Privilege Studies, Women’s and Pronoun Studies, and Palestine River-to-Sea Studies. With so few options before me in those antiquarian days, all I could study was Dead White Men Studies. Accordingly, I majored in political science, took courses in economics, Western Contemporary Civilization, Western Humanities, and English literature. I also took two three-credit courses in Jewish history, one in New Testament, and one in architecture.
With so little to choose from, as compared to the rich and varied contemporary course offerings at the Ivy Leagues, my post-college life options were limited. As a result, I pursued three career fields that were among the few that my academic choices limited for me amid the academically impoverished mid-1970s: (i) a law career, (ii) a career as a rabbi, and (iii) a career as an opinion columnist. What can I say? Now, half a century later, as I look back, I guess I can accept that I lacked the exciting academic options you have enjoyed and, oh well, at least my three careers enabled me to support a family of four children, own a four-bedroom house among similarly deprived people of my generation (including the White-privileged, newly arriving immigrants to America from South Korea and Vietnam, and Americans from India who spell incredibly well).
Just as you have much you could teach me about transgender studies, windmills and climate, and race deconstruction, I share these tidbits from what I learned:

Rent Control: When the government prohibits landlords from raising apartment rents, the owners generate less revenue. Therefore, they spend less on apartment maintenance, upkeep, and repairs. They provide a bit less heat in the winter and air c...