History
For a glance at how the Great Depression affected the popular view of Wall Street, see how the title of this book changed: The 1930 title: Hetty Green, a woman who loved money. The 1936 title: The witch of Wall Street, Hetty Green. Same book: The 1936 edition was a
Houston
I am the kiss of death for the teams I root for. Here are the college football games I have been at this season, with the team I was rooting for listed in ALL CAPS: Rice 28, SAN JOSE STATE 24 Fortunately, I don't remember much of that
Politics
Dear Mr. Ornstein, Continuity of Government Commissionthe June 2003 issue of The AtlanticyouAmerican Enterprise Institute /s/ Steve Casburn
Houston
My neighborhood is heaven for walkers. One can walk west to River Oaks, northwest to Memorial Park, east down the Buffalo Bayou, and (as I did last night) south through the Montrose to Rice University. For the Rice University walk (about three miles each way), the journey—whether down Mandell,
History
for sale The Worldly Philosophers
Houston
The 2003 Texas Renaissance Festival begins today in Plantersville. Rather than go, I plan to spend the evening in my neighborhood at a Texas modern festival, enjoying the colorful pageantry and historical tradition of college football. Just before "kickoff", the visiting team (to which I am bound by
Politics
From an article in Foreign Affairs: The Afghanistan crisis has dramatized and intensified antecedent changes and strains in the Western alliance. There was unanimous, if separate, condemnation [...], but there were also divergent, and often acrimoniously different, assessments of the causes of aggression and the nature of the challenge. The difficulties
Houston
Met Thomas and Lori Gray at the Doghouse Tavern in Midtown to watch UH play East Carolina. An entertaining game, that Houston won 27-13. Because it was a beautiful day, I walked the two miles to the Tavern before the game, taking Waugh to Fairview to Bagby. Fairview through
Politics
An e-mail to Fox News: your story last week about Wesley Clarka request from The Weekly Standard Have you requested that the White House check its logs for calls to and from Robert Novak during the month of June? If they'll do a log check for a
Politics
Brad DeLong asks the question I have asked many times since 1995: Where are the grownups in the Republican Party? I recently read Henry Fairlie's 1978 book, The parties: Republicans and Democrats in this century, and Fairlie agrees with Hubert Humphrey that [pgs. 215-16] (Again, that was
Politics
Kevin Drum says it better than I could. Remember: [the Plame affair] is not just some run of the mill political dirty trick. It's perilously close to treason. No truly principled conservative administration would do a thing like this, and the fact that they've been trying
Education
A "Viva Mexico" party held by Duke University's Sigma Chi fraternity has angered Mexican-Americans at that campus. Sad to say, the anger of the aggrieved students, as they are now expressing it, will not deter future such parties or even provide catharsis. Protests, denunciations, administrative