Tom Palaima

  • Death of a Robber Baron

    H.W. Brands’ The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield is the first book in Anchor Books’ American Portraits Series, which [...] Full Story

  • The Daily Fight

    Lost Books of Texas Most of us never hold high political office. Neither did Jane McCallum until, as she was approaching 50, she served [...] Full Story

  • War Without End

    If President Lyndon B. Johnson hadn’t had firsthand experience with poverty and racism in Texas, he might never have come around to civil rights, [...] Full Story

  • The Golden Football

    In 1928, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine published an article by John R. Tunis critical of college football. At the time, Tunis was widely regarded [...] Full Story

  • Hard Labor

    In Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers, Dick J. Reavis describes what life is like in a world most of us never [...] Full Story

  • UT’s Byzantine Budget: On $5 million coaches and laid-off lecturers

    The University of Texas football team played in the Rose Bowl Thursday night. Coach Mack Brown had high hopes of clinching the national championship, [...] Full Story

  • Killing the Thirst

    This summer Texas suffered through its worst drought in half a century. Two hundred and thirty public water systems declared mandatory restrictions. Crop and [...] Full Story

  • American Ideas

    In April, William H. Goetzmann, a Pulitzer-prize winning historian at The University of Texas at Austin, told the Austin American-Statesman that as a boy [...] Full Story

  • The Godless Christian

    Robert Jensen, a self-described radical political activist and associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, is probably still best known [...] Full Story

  • Our Own Good

    In the early 1970s, Rick Shenkman recalls, he “was tutored in the precepts of Russell Kirk, Leo Strauss and other conservative intellectuals who were [...] Full Story