Culture

Drought Relief

Direct Quote: Not Fade Away

Joe Barajas is a 33-year-old co-owner of Kardzmatic Barbershop in San Antonio.

The Redemption of Matthew McConaughey

In Dallas Buyer’s Club, Matthew McConaughey gives a performance worthy of an Oscar.

The Legacy of Crystal City’s Internment Camps

The legacy of the Crystal City, Texas internment camps poses a difficult question about the balance between national security and personal liberty.

Diane Ravitch Says Public School Reformers Have Got It Wrong in Reign of Error

The narrative of crisis in public education, according to Diane Ravitch, has one problem: It’s dead wrong. In her new book, Reign of Error, Ravitch emphatically refutes the reformer thesis.

Hip-Hop in H-Town

In “Houston Rap,” Peter Beste and Lance Scott Walker document Houston’s rap scene and the neighborhoods that cultivate it.

Casey Affleck Slips Into Darkness in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

In the end, though, I couldn’t shake the feeling that beneath the film’s undeniable emotional force, there isn’t much else to Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.

Ted’s Red Hot Right Wings

Direct Quote: Bodies of Work

  Evelyn Billington is a 50-year-old certified taxidermist. Born and raised in Germany, she met and married a U.S. military man at age 18 […]

Robert Zarestsky Reminds Us Why Albert Camus is Still Worth Reading

Zaretsky identifies Camus as a moralist, not a moralizer, one who poses questions rather than imposes answers.