Brexit, Texas, and the American Tradition: Why #Texit Is More Than a Meme After Brexit, #Texit trended for days. The American union began as a voluntary compact of sovereign states — which makes secession a fair question, not a meme. #society
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Brexit, Texas, and the American Tradition: Why #Texit Is More Than a Meme After Brexit, #Texit trended for days. The American union began as a voluntary compact of sovereign states — which makes secession a fair question, not a meme. 
Uber Leaves Austin: What We Can Learn From the Ride-Sharing Vote When Austin regulated Uber and Lyft out of town, it swapped a responsive market for a 17%-turnout vote — a lesson in prices, choice, and economic calculation. 
The Uncountable Cons of the War on Drugs A century on, prohibition hasn’t curbed drug use — but it has bred cartels, mass incarceration, corruption, and deadlier drugs. A tally of the real costs. 
School Sucks: Think Outside the Classroom School and education aren't the same thing. One is expensive and compulsory; the other is freely available, at your own pace, from the world's best teachers. 
Unarmed and Unreasonable: The Folly of UT Austin’s Opposition to Campus Carry UT Austin’s fight against Texas’s campus-carry law runs on fear, not facts — and the data from 150-plus carrying campuses tells a far calmer story. 
The Texan Aporkalypse: A Plague of Wild Pigs Three million feral hogs, half a billion dollars in damage a year, and no way to stop them. How wild pigs overran Texas — and why hunting can’t win.