Did I make a wrong turn? Did I go too far north? No, I was still in beautiful Port Pierce, Florida. What shocked me into thinking I had accidentally wound up in South Carolina was a flag: two red bars diagonally crossing a solid white background, suspiciously resembling the . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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Spying on the American Remnant
As a boy, your author lived in a working-class neighborhood just outside Houston’s city limits. My parents were the children of rural people who had come to Houston looking for work during the Great Depression. They lived in frame houses sitting on cinder blocks in Houston’s . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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A Week of Mondays
“There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson What helps set this study . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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A Continued Source of Conflict
The Confederate battle flag continues to be a source of conflict and controversy. One year ago, Michael Westerman of Elkton, Kentucky, a 19- year-old father of twins, was murdered by black teens who took offense to the Confederate flag hung in the back of Westerman's truck. When . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Remembering Eugene Genovese
Eugene Genovese was one of the most influential and controversial historians of his generation. Whether Genovese ever self-identified as a conservative remains an intriguing question, without a simple answer. Few people knew him better than I did. In his teens, Genovese, the son of a Brooklyn . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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The Celtic Heritage of the Old South
looked almost too small to shoulder a gun." Another visitornin the Old South counted 13 "guns hung up along thenrafters" of a two-room log cabin.nSoutherners were not "bookish." Formal educationnmeant less to them and their Celtic ancestors than learningnto master their natural environment. The Southern womanndescribed by a . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Dixie Peaceniks?
People don’t like it when you mess with their heritage. The Bolsheviks tried to destroy Russian nationalism, in particular massacring Russian Orthodox bishops, priests and nuns. But when Hitler invaded, not enough Russians fought for Marx, Lenin and dialectical materialism. So Stalin allowed Metropolitan Bishop Sergius to be elected patriarch, brought some of the surviving...
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What Mean Ye By These Stones?
Following the 1862 battle at Perryville, the angry Unionists who held the Kentucky town declined to bury their slain foes. When the stench and sight of wild hogs gorging themselves on corpses finally proved unbearable, the task of laying the dead to rest fell upon one Henry P. Bottom, the secessionist upon whose once-prosperous farm...
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Dixie Redux
In Maryland, one naturally associates historical reenactment with the Civil War. Yet the only reenactor I know eschews the Civil for the Revolutionary War because, he says, "I don't reenact events where the people are still fighting the war. They might use live ammunition!" Tony Horwitz's account . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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The Broken Promise of American Life
The better future which Americans propose to build is nothing if not an idea which must in certain essential respects emancipate them from their past. American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation. On the whole, it is a past . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Sweet Land of Liberty
I am deeply honored to receive the Richard Weaver Award, to stand in the ranks of the distinguished men who have received it, and to have an award in the name of a man who has always been one of my heroes. As a lifelong libertarian, I have been . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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The New South
A Time to Kill Produced by Arnon Milchan, Michael Nathanson, Hunt Lowry, and John Grisham Directed by Joel Schumacher Based on a novel by John Grisham Screenplay by Akiva Goldsman Released by Warner Brothers A Time to Kill, Joel Schumacher's . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access...
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Return of the Alien
"The whole world, without a native home Is nothing but a prison of larger room." —Abraham Cowley His father used to say that the country was good; it was only the people that made it intolerable. Now his father's son was headed up to that north . . . Subscribers Only...
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Letter From Palermo
in the Union, reject their business leaders'rnpromise of economic progress? Andrnwhy make such a controversial choice forrna symbol, a mere flag?rnNon-Southerners habitually underestimaternthe importance that Southernersrnattach to their heritage. No doubt thernp.c. crowd thought it would be a simplernmatter to use the media monopoly tornpropagate the . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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On the Confederate Flag
I would like to respond to Professor Clyde Wilson's editorial (Cultural Revolutions) in your March issue, regarding our efforts toward compromise on the Confederate battle flag that flies above our . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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A Happy Man in a Terrible Century
Help Us FightrnOur southern ¥rn0 Saverneritage!rn"Civil Rights" groups have launched a campaign to eliminaternALL symbols of Confederate history and heritage, including thernremoval of all Confederate monuments from public property!rnIf you're ready to fight back, then Join A Winning Team!rnThe Heritage Preservation AssociationrnHPA is a nonprofit . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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Cultural Revolutions
THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE, whichrnwas founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, inrnJune 1994, seeks to advance the social,rncultural, economic, and political wellbeingrnand independence of the Southernrnpeople. According to SouthernrnLeague President Michael Hill, thernSouth, though it has been subsumed byrnthe American Empire, remains a distinctrnhistorical entity: "The South has its ownrnculture based on . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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Deo Vindice
One day last September I was visited by a couple of guys who were writing a cover story on the South for a Dutch magazine. They had been to Darlington, Tuskegee, Oxford, Charleston, and other shrines of Southern culture, and I was pleased to see that Chapel Hill was . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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Ancestors
VIEWSnWith the deaths of Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percynthe specter of the star system is loose again in the land.n"Who will be their successors? Who will pick up theirnmantle?" It's a plaintive cry, predictable but genuine,nlargely journalistic and academic---a spume from the wavenof canon . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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Letter From the Lower Right
other.rnOn the bright side, there's no questionrnthat the Barcelona Olympics wererngreat for the morale of Catalonia, andrnthe 1996 Games could be equally bracingrnfor the South. My buddy Chris wasrnimpressed, for instance, by how the InternationalrnOlympic Committee wasrnbullied into using Catalan as one of thernofficial languages at Barcelona. "Thernsports . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Goes Hand in Hand
The Rebel Flag and Ole Miss go hand-in-hand—or rather, they did, until recently. The University of Mississippi's football team is named the Rebels, and students and alumni have had a long tradition of waving the Confederate Battle Flag at home football games. But the tides . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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The Multicultural Lie
Rockford, Illinois, the home of The Rockford Institute and Chronicles, was established in a series of migratory ripples: first Yankees, then Scots, then Swedes. A later wave of immigration brought many Italians, both from Sicily and Northern Italy. Today, German-Americans are the largest ethnic group in Rockford, as they are in the United States as...
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Perspectives on RPW
The late Mark Winchell’s recently published Robert Penn Warren: Genius Loves Company is a collection of essays focusing on Warren’s close associations and literary affinities. Warren was known as a kind and generous man . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a...
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The Rise and Fall of a Paleoconservative at the Washington Times (Part I)
After nearly a decade of working for the Washington Times, I was fired last September. Technically, I "resigned," but Wes Pruden, the Times' editor-in-chief, asked me for a letter of resignation, and I had no real choice but to agree. Nor, by that . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article...
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Letter From Zanesville
eed) students to more effective districts.rnConscc[uentl, the educrats have beenrnscrambHng to their last Hnc of defense:rndepreciate tlie results and significancernof specific testing instruments, such asrnthe SAI' and PE, and objective, quantitatirnc grading s'stems in general. Therngeneral name for this is OBE, "Outcome-rnBased Education," which seeks . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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The GOP’s Secret Weapon
If the war with Iraq was largely the work of the Likudnik faction that has commandeered the Bush administration’s Middle East policies, the liberation of Liberia on which the President suddenly embarked the nation last summer seems to have originated at least in part with yet another lobby . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Sweet Land of Liberty
who came from Wessex in southern England, and settled onrnlarge plantations in the tidewater South; and, in the 18th century,rnlarge numbers of Scotch-Irish, who came from the fiercernand warring border country in northern England, southernrnScotland, and northern Ireland, who settled as individualisticrnfarmers in the back country of Southern . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Letter From Alabama
of this massacre. It might have drivenrndown property values and led to dilapidation.rnBut last year it was the locationrnof the most impressive Christmas celebrationrnin many decades.rnThe ladies who organized the seasonalrnevents—including the Victorian Christmasrnporch tour, the luminaries onrnCollinwood Drive, and tours of homesrnand shops—have successfully foughtrnevil . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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Taking Down the Fiddle
The 75th anniversary of the publication of I’ll Take My Stand ought to cause traditionalist Southerners and other Americans to look closely not only at the current state of our society but at their own personal spheres of community, family, and church. The authors warned that . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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At Loggerheads
At Loggerheadsrnby William BaldwinrnCaught in the Netrnhy Anthony V. Margavio andrnCraig /. Forsyth, with Shirley Laskarnand James MasonrnCollege Station:rnTexas A&M University Press;rn156 pp., $32.50rnThe Endangered Species Act is arncontroversial directive. The snailrndarter and spotted owl have gleaned nornend of headlines, having been used tornjustify the preservation . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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Media: McCarthyism in Manhattan
Crown Heights, which resulted in thernsavage murder of a young Rabbinical student?rnHow dare anyone resent the MartinrnLuther King holiday? Bob Grant did,rnand his attitudes and ideas were metrnwith a chorus of protest from the Pharisees.rnAlan Dershowitz, the liar for hire ofrnchoice for murderers and rapists, appearedrnon the . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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Letter From New York City
Sentencing Project in 1995, 32 percentrnof black men ages 20-29 were eitherrnin jail, or on probation or parole—rnnot counting those convicts who hadrnfinished their sentences. In areas suchrnas Brooklyn's East New York, Bedford-rnStuyvesant, and Brownsville, andrnQueens' Far Rockaway, the number topsrn50 percent. However, white QueensrnCollege sociologist . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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The Story of Love
tnitcrrestrial intelligence, and the notoriousrnnuelear w inter seare of a few yearsrnback. Sagan also includes religion—especialh"rnChristianity—which he smearsrnrather than attacks by a clever method ofrnguilt-b"-association. Ilis discussion ofrnreligion is immediately linked to thernwitch-hunting craze of the 16th century,rnon which he spends a significant . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article...
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The Fixer
perfectly aware that Tudjman had regularrnCroatian troops in Bosnia, and quietlyrncondoned his intention to violate allrnagreements in order to destroy the KrajinarnSerbs. Accordingly, "There was thereforernno feeling between us of resentmentrnat being let down Vv'hen he did attackrnacross agreed ceasefire lines."rnAlija Izetbegovic is treated with similarrncharity. We are . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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A Dirge Transposed
“A novel,” wrote Stendhal, “is a mirror carried along a road.” In Cyn-thia Shearer’s new book, the road, literally speaking, is that between the invented town of Madagascar, Mississippi, where the action is centered, and Memphis, the other major setting; metaphorically, it is the distance the South . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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On the Council of Conservative
Citizens Clyde Wilson is simply wrong when he writes that "the Council of Conservative Citizens was not responsible for saving our flag" and that the Council's "efforts, including rallies by tattooed motorcycle thugs and David Duke followers, have been resoundingly counterproductive—just what the media wanted" ("
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Clip Clop, Bang Bang
The manipulative sensationalism regarding any display of the Confederate battle flag continues unabated. The New York Times gets hot and bothered, or sexually aroused—or whatever it is that the New York Times becomes—whenever that banner appears over the capitol of South Carolina or . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article...
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Up From the Ice Age
tific theories," he writes, "do not causenpeople to commit murder. Nonetheless,nall ideas can be used to justify hatred.nBut here, religious and egalitarian ideasnhave just as bad a history. The Reign ofnTerror following the French Revolutionn(1789) and the 70 years of communistndictatorship following the Russian Revolutionn(1917) show . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access...
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Law: National Lawyers Association
Help Us FightrnOur oouthem ¥rno Saverneritage!rn"Civil Rights" groups have launched a campaign to eliminaternALL symbols of Confederate history and heritage, including thernremoval of all Confederate monuments from public property!rnIf you're ready to fight back, then Join A Winning Team!rnThe Heritage Preservation AssociationrnHPA is a nonprofit . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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Letter From South Carolina
suspect there is a little something psychologicallyrnwrong with people whose livesrnseem to revolve around correcting otherrnpeople who live at a distance. It is not arnpart of our regional character, but it definitelyrnis of theirs.rnSurfing the net during the controversy,rnI came across a diatribe against our flagrnby a certified . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now...
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Letter From Moscow
dead Landon that: "The pride of bloodrnis a most important and beneficial influence."rnIn a world speedily becomingrnhomogenized, it is vital that we retainrnsome vestige of exclusivity, so that whenrnseen in retrospect by some future Santavana,rn"Our distinction and glory, asrnwell as our sorrow, will have lain in beingrnsomething . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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The Heart’s Geography
I took out the atlas the other day to figure out the routes of the voyagers retraced by Jean Raspail on his first trip to the United States. In the event, it proved impossible to plot a French expedition on a modern map of the United States. Maps are . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe...
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has e'er complained because his planernwas 15 minutes late.rn—Christopher CheckrnRace and Culture. By Thomas Sowellrn(New York: Basic Books), 331 pp., $25.00rnThomas Sowell's latest book explodesrnmany cliches regarding slavery, "discrimination,"rnand the wretched conditions ofrnblacks and odier minorities, hi Sowell'srnview, Afroccntric "historians" havernturned history . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and...
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Poor Mexico, Poor America: Extracts Omitted
I foolishly used an early version of my article. Rather than repost everything, I am putting in a few omitted extracts: Introduction“Poor Mexico,” sighed Porfirio Diaz, “so far from God, so close to the United States.” Though a hero in the Battle . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and...
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Dixie Dystopia
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again. –Mark Twain Just in case you have not heard, we are in the midst of a Culture War. Death by . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to...
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Raising a Flag for Mr. Davidson
"An outlaw fumbling for the latch, a voice Commanding in a dream where no flag flies." —Donald Davidson, "Lee in the Mountains" The University of Missouri's publication of Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance does much to redress . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and...
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L’Etranger Chez Lui
I suppose that after William Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy (1916-1990) has been for the last three decades the most widely read of Southern writers. He has been known as a social observer as well as a novelist, and as a philosopher as . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to...
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A Memorable Secession
I haven’t read The Land We Love: The South and Its Heritage, and judging by Donald Livingston’s review (May 2019 issue) I probably won’t. Why? Because it sounds like yet . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the full article and gain access to other exclusive features. Already a subscriber? Sign in here
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The Country Girl
The fall the Orioles won their first World Series, I was rooming off-campus with three other Towson State College freshmen in a three-story house on Evesham Avenue. The Baltimore of the mid-1960’s was not as much ashamed of its heritage as unschooled in it, most . . . Subscribers Only Subscribe now to access the...
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