According to the Daily Texan, more than 75,000 books, musical scores and collection materials acquired and maintained over many decades with great care and at great expense have recently been removed from...
The election of Donald Trump marks so significant a sea change in American political history that we, Professors Al Martinich (Philosophy) and Tom Palaima (Classics and Dylanology), have proposed a new...
In my UGS 303 Ethics and Leadership class, my students and I are now dealing with questions of how those who are on the lower rungs of the socioeconomic and political ladders of their societies feel when...
In my many years of teaching ancient mythology, I have absorbed, as I hope my students have, the important lessons about life that the original myth-makers embedded in their stories.
One lesson is to...
On the advice of a colleague, I watched the 30-second Bevo commercial online for the new Longhorn Network.
Then I watched the network’s opening sequence. He added, “Even you, cynical as you...
On Monday, President William Powers Jr. used his Tower Talk blog to praise the UT faculty for its role in making the undergraduate academic reputation of UT seventh among public universities and...
