Tag Archives: University of Houston
In Their Rush to Appear Pro-Israel, Texas Lawmakers May Have Stepped on Free Speech
A growing number of people have reported that a state law is forcing them to choose between their political beliefs and payment for their labor.
To make extra money while attending the University of Texas at Austin, Obi Dennar often worked as a judge for high school debate tournaments. In October, after ...Read More
Lives in Limbo
How activism, art and architecture are bringing the shadowy immigrant detention system into clearer view
“These are public institutions,” Lopez says. “It's taxpayer money. And it's immigration — a national issue. But it's not something that we're having the...Read More
Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait
A closer look at the poet’s musings on “Manly Health.”
The many turns of fate that brought Dripping Springs native Zachary Turpin to an undiscovered Walt Whitman archive covering the hinterlands of health....Read More
Armed Students Don’t Worry Me
But the unpacking of the ideal of the university sure does.
What I fear most is not students packing heat in my classroom, but the unpacking of the ideal of the university....Read More
Andy Coolquitt’s “Attainable Excellence” at Houston’s Blaffer Museum
Texas artist Andy Coolquitt makes locally inspired art in the most literal sense. His works are sculptural collections of materials he finds in the streets arou...Read More
Group That Hands Out Guns Receives Unquestioning Texas Media Coverage
Kyle Coplen, the 29-year-old student who started the Armed Citizen Project, seems to be having fun messing with the Texas media. ...Read More