With acknowledgment for the blog’s philosophical interest in the culture wars, I’d like to offer some observations from Texas regarding the contested ownership of the state’s past on either side of the COVID pandemic. [1] If Texas has become a proving ground for launching conservative ideas, intellectuals in other fields should be wary of the political and ideological gamesmanship beyond the study of history that steered events into a one-sided contest that is continuing to develop. The traditional past in Texas is becoming increasingly relevant in the public’s perception, in part at the expense of scholars and the work they Read more