The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, by Heather MacDonald An alternative title to this book might be Identity Politics 101, because Heather MacDonald takes all of it on in a book full of much of what she has written on the subject over the past few […]
Bush 41 RIP
December has traditionally been a month of rest for The Texas Pilgrim, but I could not let the momentous significance of last week’s tribute to President George H. W. Bush pass without comment. It has been suggested that the pomp and circumstance of the events in Washington, Houston, and College Station would not have been […]
The Election: Not Many Surprises
After reviewing the results for a couple of days and listening to a range of commentary on the outcome, I can’t seem to find many surprises in the mid-term elections. Here are a few thoughts: The progressive “blue wave” didn’t happen. Substantially all of the flips by the Democrats were in blue states and/or by […]
The Perversion of Truth
Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.—Sen. Maize Hirono (D), Hawaii One of the most troubling aspects of the Kavanaugh nomination debacle, aside from the refutation of the jurisprudential presumption of innocence and the burden of proof, was the exposure of […]
What is Nationalism?
Since the Brexit vote in the UK and the election of Donald Trump, the theme of nationalism has been thrown around like some 20th century disease that grew out of Nazism and with movements rife with xenophobia and worse, racism. Well, there are some nationalists who might harbor such instincts, but it is an unfair […]
“The Caravan” and Trade Policy
The Houston Chronicle devotes quite a bit of space regularly in bashing President Trump on just about everything, particularly his border security policy, but in a recent editorial, the Chronicle made a few suggestions buried in more Trump criticism that I can actually agree with. The editorial board references favorably Bush Institute fellows Matthew Rooney […]
The Kavanaugh Ordeal
As I write, one of the most shameful public episodes of my lifetime is slowly grinding to a conclusion, except that whatever the final outcome, when the U. S. Senate finally votes on the Kavanaugh Supreme Court appointment during the next few days, it will not represent anything resembling closure for the American body politic […]
Has Liberalism Failed?
Patrick Deneen has written a very ambitious book, Why Liberalism Failed, in which in several respects he makes a compelling case that its founding ideology was destined to fail because it was built upon a foundation of a number of contradictions. He opens the book as follows: “A political philosophy conceived some 500 years ago, […]
The “Resilient City” Aspiration
A recent essay in The Houston Chronicle by Brett Perlman, CEO of the Center for Houston’s Future, prompted me to revisit a few previous posts on the characteristics and distinctiveness of my hometown. Perlman is rightly proud of the fact that Houston was recently added to the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities program, the members […]
What Are Our “Best and Brightest” Reading?
As a member of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) and avid reader, I look forward to the annual survey conducted by the NAS called Beach Books: What Do Colleges Want Students to Read Outside Class? The recent release of their eighth annual survey covering assigned outside reading for 2017-18 was notable for its consistency […]
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