A quarter-century ago, I was in the early stages of writing a book about the history of Memorial Stadium on the University of Texas campus. Before the writing, of course, came the research—of which there was a lot. And during that...
I can think of few jobs tougher than being an official apologist for the Mormons—i.e., the Church of Latter-Day Saints, based since 1847 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Defending, justifying and rationalizing the life of their...
I get irritated upon discerning the shallow and short-sighted perceptions of some people. This surely obtains in the matter of recognition for the men and women who worked and sacrificed for the great cause of civil rights in the United...
Long, long ago, I had a girlfriend named Louise. She was 14 years my senior, but that is beside the point. A doctoral student at UT, she told me about a job opening that sounded right for a beginning journalist. I drove to the office of...
In conversations with friends and in my writings, I have sometimes expressed opinions that may be fairly characterized as “old school.” Now, let’s take a look at that term and its meaning and connnotations. Old school looks...
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