You are exactly right, but I thought it was The New Republic that did the article on Phil Gramm. I actually hunted it for in my old, back copies. No wonder I couldn’t find it. Do you know which issue of Tex. Monthly it was? I subscribe to that too.
I don’t know which issue of Texas Monthly. If you subscribe, I think you can enter your subscription info into a form on their website and view the archives online.
I seem to think it was the 1990s. I also think I read it in a waiting room somewhere.