See the letter I sent to the Chronicle on Friday, just after the Alamo story initially appeared. The CEO of the Alamo Trust quit the next day. Let’s see if they will run it.
Dispatch #15—“Scoundrel Time”
It has been a tumultuous stretch of days in our national life since the assassination of Charlie Kirk on the afternoon of September 10. Let’s get an obligatory acknowledgement out of the way. It is never acceptable to celebrate such a death no matter how contentious and objectionable the views of the victim.
Remembering the Alamo (Honestly)
By the time I was in college, I thought Texas history was a joke, not worthy of serious attention. I knew by then that much of what we were taught was utter mythology and I wanted to get my mind as far away from my hopelessly reactionary native state as possible.