Winners & Losers

Winners & Losers: The Only Relevant Question

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With the Super Bowl looming on Sunday and Texas’ primary election less than a month away, here’s who made the list:

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9th & Congress

Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies

Some professors at Texas A&M have issued a letter expressing outrage over the recent decision to eliminate the women’s and gender studies degree programs. Revving up the dramatics, faculty who run the program warn that the university is dismantling this degree track at a “moment of incendiary dispute across cultural, social, and political difference on the issues of gender.”

A moment of incendiary dispute? Let’s take a closer look.

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Winners & Losers

Winners & Losers: Homan & Elon Win, Communism Loses

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Texas’ electric grid and the hard work of Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to strengthen it would all be at the top of the winners list, but with the threat of more winter is coming, it’s too soon to call. Here’s who else made the list.

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9th & Congress

9th & Congress: “Islamic Games” are “Identity Sports”

It didn’t take long for Grapevine-Colleyville ISD and Cy-Fair ISD to back off their offer of the use of public school facilities to host the so-called “Islamic Games,” once it was revealed that one of the sponsors was the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has linked to foreign terrorists.

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Winners & Losers

Winners & Losers: Davos, the Bible, Indiana and More

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Currently, it feels like we are living in scenes of “Game of Thrones” in which dark, ominous voices keep warning us that “winter is coming.” As we prepare to face down a national storm, here’s who made the list.

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All Over the Map

All Over the Map: A Journey from Left to Right

Political scientists routinely describe the current division in American politics as “tribal,” as if the seething intensity each side feels for the other is something new. I was born into a family whose political roots run deep, and I can tell you, unequivocally, that politics has always been tribal.

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Winners & Losers

Winners & Losers: The Sermon on the “Mound” & Religious Illiteracy

After a year of debating and finally passing a new curriculum for Texas public schools, it seems like the day after Christmas is a good time to re-visit this piece I wrote in 2024 about cultural illiteracy and the importance of understanding the role Christianity plays in the foundation of our western culture.

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Winners & Losers

Winners & Losers: Best of 2025

Throughout 2025, I joined the Cardle & Woolley Show every Friday morning on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Starting with the inauguration of President Donald Trump’s second term and an epic session of the Texas Legislature, 2025 has been an epic year, changing the course of history in so many ways, for good and for ill. To reflect a bit, I pulled the best and the worst happenings from this year’s Winners & Losers lists:

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Winners & Losers

Winners & Losers: Watching the Data & the History

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Amid the joys of this holy season and the machinations of the College Football Playoff bracket, here’s the list for this week:

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