William Murchison

The human tempests presently sweeping the country — rape allegations at the University of Virginia and in the U.S. military,…

“Race,” you said? A “national conversation” about race and the variant understandings and byplays that result from our differences? A…

Thanks-mas — as our new winter holiday deserves to become known, with pumpkins and red-and-green lights merging in anticipatory celebration…

For two more years, two very long and, I’m afraid, discombobulating years, the United States is to be served by…

“The polls” have it that Americans in 2014 expect virtually nothing from the 2014 style in Washington politicians. Amid the…

The really troubling point that Joel Kotkin makes in the New York Daily News is that New York can’t figure…

“(Wendy) Davis is running (for governor) against Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is heavily favored to win in a…

Americans will cease arguing over the federal Voting Rights Act and its intricacies — oh, I imagine around the time…

The idea of unelected judges defining norms and basic values has never been an appealing one, but it’s a role…

Tee-hee; snicker-snicker. Look at those right-wing clodhoppers scrambling for cover. Yes, sir, Highland Park High School, in Dallas, having “reassessed”…