Slouching Toward Fascism
Fascism is a governmental system in which the means of economic production and delivery of services are privately owned but government-controlled. Throughout history — before even getting to its racism and wars — fascism has led to the glorification of the state and...
News From Around the South 11/28 to 12/5
SOUTH CAROLINA: I-85 Confederate Flag Back in Spartanburg as Property Owners File Appeal SPARTANBURG — An appeal has been filed with Spartanburg County to allow a flagpole to remain on private property after the county notified the group the flagpole was in violation...
Shady Stock Trading by Federal Workers Further Erodes Public Trust in Government
A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that it’s not just a handful of members of Congress who have traded stocks in ways that appear guided by inside information from government. Thousands of government employees are doing it as well. Among them were...
Echoes of Reconstruction: Losing the “Lost Cause” in Historical Revisionism
The Lost Cause by Edward Pollard is a seminal work in the development of a Southern White historical tradition recalling, celebrating, and interpreting the fallen Confederacy to those who were part of the four-year experiment and to their children and grandchildren....
Thanksgiving Lessons
Thursday, if you eat a nice meal, thank the Pilgrims. They made Thanksgiving possible. They left the Old World to escape religious persecution. They imagined a new society where everyone worked together and shared everything. In other words, they dreamed of socialism....Obiter Dicta
I’ve always been both a small-r republican and an Anglophile, so I looked upon the British monarchy with at least Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More