In the three large undergraduate sections of an introductory political science class I am teaching this semester, we are currently debating the impact of political culture in Texas. As a precursor to that debate, I asked students to examine Texas culture and cultural identity in general. One point I …

Christopher Nolan’s new film, the Odyssey, has launched a thousand think pieces. Below, I have included the headlines from some of the more provocative pieces about the work.

I recently finished a pair of books: The French: Portrait of a People by De Gramont and Barbarian Migration and the Roman West by Halsall. Both were interesting in their own right, but I found them even more fascinating from the standpoint of historiography. Both books were good reminders that …