Opinion Archive: William Murchison
- Elections Have Consequences — Tuesday, December 28, 2010
- Of Worldly Power and Christmas Tidings — Tuesday, December 21, 2010
- The Judge Says 'No' — Tuesday, December 14, 2010
- At War With the Military — Tuesday, December 7, 2010
- Those Whom the God Would Destroy ... — Tuesday, November 30, 2010
- The Palin Perplexity — Tuesday, November 23, 2010
- The Tax Rate Racket — Tuesday, November 16, 2010
- Bush Bounces Back — Tuesday, November 9, 2010
- At Last -- Maybe Some Job Creation — Saturday, November 6, 2010
- Will the GOP Now Blow It? (No) — Tuesday, November 2, 2010
- Texas and the Art of Liking Business — Tuesday, October 26, 2010
- Why The Government Can't Do Everything — Tuesday, October 19, 2010
- Let No Crisis Go To Waste — Tuesday, October 12, 2010
- Voting With Their Feet — Tuesday, October 5, 2010
- A Nation Starting (Maybe) to Turn — Tuesday, September 28, 2010
- Atheism: What a Joke — Tuesday, September 21, 2010
- The End of Affirmative Action — Tuesday, September 7, 2010
- The War Within the War — Tuesday, August 31, 2010
- Secularism and the Mosque Flap — Tuesday, August 24, 2010
- Insulting Our Intelligence — Tuesday, August 17, 2010
- The 'Gay Marriage' Fantasy — Tuesday, August 10, 2010
- Paul Ryan and the Perils of Realism — Tuesday, August 3, 2010
- Let's Hear it for Free Speech — Tuesday, July 27, 2010
- The Fate of the Book — Tuesday, July 20, 2010
- The Constitutions in Our Brains — Tuesday, July 13, 2010
- Ringo And The Politics of 'Hope' — Wednesday, July 7, 2010
- Politics, Power and Sen. Byrd — Tuesday, June 29, 2010
- Good For You, Joe Barton — Tuesday, June 22, 2010
- Energy Demagogues — Tuesday, June 15, 2010
- On Throwing Israel to the Wolves — Tuesday, June 8, 2010
- The Sound and the Fury — Wednesday, June 2, 2010
- What Rand Paul Got Right — Tuesday, May 25, 2010
- Home School, Sweet Home School — Tuesday, May 18, 2010
- The Harvard Way of Life — Tuesday, May 11, 2010
- Oil Spills and the Big Picture — Tuesday, May 4, 2010
- Time For an Election! — Tuesday, April 27, 2010
- On 'Demonizing' the Government — Tuesday, April 20, 2010
- The Unfairness of Income Tax — Tuesday, April 13, 2010
- Equally Unequal? — Tuesday, April 6, 2010
- How to Stave Off Economic Recovery — Tuesday, March 30, 2010
- Democratic Coup d'etat — Tuesday, March 23, 2010
- Education 'Reform,' From the Top Down — Tuesday, March 16, 2010
- The Right Word — Friday, March 12, 2010
- Undemocratic Democrats — Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- 'The Public be Damned' — Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- Time to 'Plant' Obama's Health Care — Tuesday, February 23, 2010
- The Battle of the Textbooks — Wednesday, February 17, 2010
- Mad, Mad, Mad — Tuesday, February 9, 2010
- Government Itself Needs an Education — Tuesday, February 2, 2010
- In Praise of Euphemism — Thursday, January 28, 2010
- Tax-Cut Time — Tuesday, January 26, 2010
- Brown and the Revolt Against Arrogance — Thursday, January 21, 2010
- The Right Word — Friday, January 15, 2010
- Time for Term Limits — Tuesday, January 12, 2010
- Does Obama 'Get' the Terror War? — Tuesday, January 5, 2010
About William Murchison
William Murchison thinks there's more to life than politics.
That's the title of his mold-breaking look at modern culture, with foreword by William F. Buckley Jr.
In There's More to Life Than Politics (Spence, 1999) Murchison smacks around the prevalent notion that politicians and power can fix everything in need of fixing. His own assumption is a quieter one -- that family, religion, memory, and the little things of life outweigh our usual anxieties. That assumption anchors all his widely published writings.
He's Radford Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, a post he assumed after retiring from nearly 40 years with Texas newspapers, including the Dallas Morning News, where he was associate editor and senior columnist, and won numerous prizes for writing.
A seventh-generation Texan, Murchison (commonly known as Bill) was graduated from the University of Texas in 1963 and received a master of arts degree from Stanford University in 1964. Besides There's More to Life Than Politics, he has published Reclaiming Morality in America, with foreword by Bill Bennett. His most recent book, Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity, was published in 2009.
His writings are found in publications like the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Human Life Review, First Things, Touchstone and National Review. His syndicated column, distributed by Creators since the '90s, began in 1981.
Married for 32 years, the Murchisons live in Dallas, in a saltbox house designed (and partly executed) by Nancy Murchison. The once-a-week commute to Waco takes less than two hours. The Murchisons have two grown sons and one new daughter-in-law, as well as a taste for wine, opera and Texas art. They participate actively in community affairs and in the life of their Episcopal parish and diocese.
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