I believe in the Christian gospel, I really do. To me, Jesus is the light of the world (Ego sum lux mundi, as it is written in Latin), the alpha and the omega. You don’t need to preach to me, sisters and brothers, because I already...
The girls’ drill teams that keep people in the stands at halftime of high school—and some college—football games were born in Texas, and that is where they have most flourished. It began in 1928 with the Sam Houston High...
I was a student at Bryan Adams High School in Dallas from September 1968 until graduation in May 1971. Those were innocent days for me and most of my classmates. It was a big school, with about 3,300 students. A young man who attended BA at...
Over the last few years, I have read biographies of the following people: Jacob Riis, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Maynard Keynes, Isabella Bird, Leonardo Da Vinci, Nicola Tesla, Joseph Smith, Walt Whitman, Simon Bolivar, Walter Johnson, Louis...
I remember the first time I saw one of Seoul’s 50,000 pyeji jumneun saram (literal translation: “trash pickup men”). It was in the winter of 2009, and I had just moved here from Daegu. One night in the vicinity of Ehwa Womans...
When I was living in Texas, I had many occasions to visit Houston. A few miles west of there, on Interstate 10, is the little town of Sealy. It has at least one claim to fame. That’s where Eric Dickerson—the most splendid running...
You might think I’d have exhausted my store of reminiscences from the time (November 2007-January 2009) I spent as a teacher at LIKE School, but not quite. I occasionally delve into the files of my computer and look at photos taken in...
It is often said that to maintain cordial relations with most people, two topics should be avoided: religion and politics. Alas, this story has some of both. In 1978, while living in Durham, North Carolina I frequently attended services at...
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Yong Yoon and I rode the Seoul subway to Anguk Station, got out and walked a few blocks, turned left at the Somerset Hotel and joined a group of about 70 people who were having a lively demonstration across the...
I will begin by referencing my student Kim Kyeong-Yeol. His English name is Anthony. Owner of a master’s degree from Seoul National University, he is trying to get admitted to an American institution where he hopes to earn a Ph.D. in...
I am fascinated and repulsed—to equal degrees—by Rachel Dolezal. As the entire world now knows, this 37-year-old European-American woman recently lost her job as leader of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP because of a long charade...
Until rather recently, I had a poor understanding of who James J. Kilpatrick was and what he did during his lifetime (1920-2010). I first knew him as the articulate, conservative commentator on the news show 60 Minutes in the 1970s. He engaged...
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