Category Archives: RagBlog

Lamar W. Hankins :
TEXAS HISTORY | Forgetting almost all I ever learned
about the Alamo

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

The men who fought there may have been brave, but I no longer count them as heroes. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2021 As a child in the 1950s, it seems that almost everything … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
BOOKS | Rails and roads

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

Novelist Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Underground Railroad,’ is an epic novel of bondage and liberation. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 29, 2021 Near the end of The Underground Railroad, his epic novel about bondage and freedom, the … Continue reading →

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Joshua Brown :
POLITICAL CARTOON | Trump Library

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer
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THORNE DREYER :
BOOKS | Look for the book: ‘Exploring Space City!’

Posted on July 22, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

Our much-anticipated book about Houston’s historic underground paper will be published before the end of the year. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | July 22, 2021 Exploring Space City!: Houston’s Historic Underground Newspaper. Yes, our much-anticipated book about … Continue reading →

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Harry Targ :
BOOKS | The threat to democracy continues

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

Revisiting Nancy MacLean’s groundbreaking 2017 book, ‘Democracy in Chains.’ By Harry Targ | The Rag Blog | July 15, 2021 Nancy MacLean, in her groundbreaking 2017 book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
BOOKS | ‘By the Light of Burning Dreams’: Everybody
is a star

Posted on July 9, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

The book honors ‘the triumphs of the Sixties,’ though it does not neglect ‘the tragedies.’ By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | July 8, 2021 Near the end of his days as a cultural revolutionary, Abbie Hoffman explained, facetiously, … Continue reading →

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ALLEN YOUNG :
BOOKS | Ethel Rosenberg’s life story told in new book

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

I found the book to be painfully sad due to the injustice and the cruelty of the execution. By Allen Young | The Rag Blog | June 13, 2021 COLD SPRING, N.Y. — On June 19, 1953, the government of … Continue reading →

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THORNE DREYER :
REMEMBRANCE | Texas film and theater icon Gary Chason passes at 78

Posted on June 11, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

Events celebrating Gary’s life are planned for Austin and Houston. By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | June 11, 2021 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s August 17, 2010 Rag Radio interview with Gary Chason, here. Gary Chason, an iconic figure … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
BOOKS | Hilton Obenzinger bears witness to the times that have tried our souls

Posted on May 28, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

His new book of poems is ‘Witness 2017-2020.’ By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | May 28, 2021 Ezra Pound, the twentieth-century American poet, once said, “Make it new,” and “Literature is news that stays news.” He would probably … Continue reading →

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Lamar W. Hankins :
WAR | My military ambivalence

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

I thought it was wrong to fight in the Vietnam War, and there has not been one since that I found compelling. By Lamar W. Hankins | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2021 Ambivalence is the most accurate word … Continue reading →

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JONAH RASKIN :
LITERATURE | To cancel or not to cancel Jack London

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

Reflections on an American writer and a controversial movement. By Jonah Raskin | The Rag Blog | April 22, 2021 Jack London’s ashes, which are buried under a rock on Sonoma Mountain in Northern California, must be calling wildly to … Continue reading →

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Ivan Koop Kuper :
LITERATURE | Larry McMurtry: The Houston years and beyond

Posted on April 1, 2021 by Thorne Dreyer

‘I had two novel manuscripts in my drawer, which meant that I had options my fellow graduate students just didn’t have.’ By Ivan Koop Kuper | The Rag Blog | April 1, 2021 HOUSTON — Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Academy … Continue reading →

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