Ruth Pennebaker

  • Despair in Fashion

    Justin Sewell isn’t perfect. He admires “outliers” like Ralph Nader (even after my insistence that Nader can never, ever be forgiven for helping to [...] Full Story

  • Edsel U.

    Using a car analogy, [University of Texas System Board of Regents Chairman Gene Powell] said a $10,000 degree would be more like a Chevrolet [...] Full Story

  • Shut My Mouth

    In the immortal words of the great Tammy Wynette, sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. Anyway, that’s the tune I’ve been humming — [...] Full Story

  • Bringing Up Baby

    On a wintry day in February, I went to the Texas Senate to hear citizens and medical and legal experts testify about the sonogram [...] Full Story

  • Unearthing Aurora

    Lost Books of Texas “Terms of Endearment is a book?” a well-read friend asked recently. “I didn’t know that. I thought it was just [...] Full Story

  • Commentary

    Editor’s note: A recent report by two Texas State University educators, “Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Texas Public Schools,” showed that 94 [...] Full Story

  • Commentary

    So you think you know everything about Texas since you live here and went to school here and took two years of Texas history [...] Full Story

  • They’re Just Not That Into Us Anymore

    The week before the inauguration, my 26-year-old daughter and I began a road trip to California. She was headed to a new job in [...] Full Story

  • The Writers’ Super Bowl

    BOB: Good afternoon, folks! Welcome to our annual coverage of the Writers’ Super Bowl. I’m Bob Arnold, here with my sidekick, Chris Edwards, to [...] Full Story

  • Go Hornets!

    Dear Faculty and Parents: Even though it was 118 degrees last week, I think we could all feel a nip in the air. Fall [...] Full Story