March 8, 2018

Wells Fargo Lost Its Soul When It Quit the Iditarod

In the winter of 1925, a deadly diphtheria epidemic hit the isolated town of Nome, on Alaska's far northwest coast.  Diphtheria killed entire towns in those days, and some 10,000 people were in real mortal danger.  The antitox...

August 30, 2017

The NFL between a Rock and a Hard Place

For those watching the latest iteration of America's culture wars, the player protests in the National Football League are an object lesson in cultural insurgency.  The whole thing started last year when San Francisco quarterback Colin Ka...

May 16, 2017

Rest Easy, Dad: Your FBI Will Survive

My father was a Special Agent in the FBI.  Born in 1916, he grew up with ten brothers and sisters on the wharves of Galveston. Like most back then, the Goodson family scratched its way through the Depression and bit every nickel to see i...