by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 1, 2008 | Opinion
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns spoke with passion, wit and intelligence Tuesday night, calling on audience members, as Abraham Lincoln did in 1861, to listen to “the better angels of our nature.” “We are still stitched together by words and most...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 1, 2008 | Opinion
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns spoke with passion, wit and intelligence Tuesday night, calling on audience members, as Abraham Lincoln did in 1861, to listen to “the better angels of our nature.” “We are still stitched together by words and most...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 19, 2008 | Opinion
Laura Cadena, a fifth-generation Tejana, recalls a story about when her grandmother moved from Laredo to Dallas, Texas: “She remembers getting on a bus and the sign saying ‘Whites Only’ or ‘Blacks Only,’ and she didn’t know where...
by Cliff Vaughn | Sep 17, 2008 | Opinion
Much has been written about Baptist ethicist Henlee H. Barnette, including the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was interested in some of his activities. But so far as we know, Barnette’s FBI file hasn’t seen the light of day—until now. In a...
by Cliff Vaughn | Aug 27, 2008 | Opinion
Ah, Kansas. Wheat. Tornadoes. State fairs with pig races and booths selling a pork chop on a stick. Those are some popular images of the 34th state admitted to the Union. But here’s a fact: In May 2005 it became ground zero in the culture wars when three members...
