News From Around the South 3/22 to 3/29
SOUTH CAROLINA: What Do We Do With Removed Confederate Monuments? The John C. Calhoun monument in Marion Square was pulled down by city contractors in the early morning hours of June 23, whisked away to a secret location. The decision to remove the monument was...
Who Will Keep Our Liberties Safe?
What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain the government to maximize individual autonomy? What if the principle underlying democracy is to unleash the government to give the people whatever they want? What if...
Echoes Of Reconstruction: American Womanhood During the Civil War and After
We sometimes mistakenly associate the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras with the “Ideals of Victorian Womanhood,” as though all women sought to nestle inside of a purely domestic sphere of middle class docility. The Victorian Ideal never enjoyed unalloyed acceptance...
The Fall of Chile Is A Warning To America
Back in the 1970s, the nation of Chile embarked on one of the boldest sets of free market economic reforms in history. The government called in the Chicago Boys, as they were called, led by Milton Friedman and other University of Chicago free market economists. They...
News From Around the South 3/15 to 3/22
ALABAMA: 160 Years Later, Confederate Constitution An Ignoble Relic BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — With the nation locked in debates over Confederate symbols, the very document that laid out the legal framework of a government built to preserve slavery will spend its 160th...Obiter Dicta
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VIRGINIA: Latino Virginia oral history project gives voice to stories that supplant stereotypes ore than 1 in 10 Virginia residents are Latino, according to a 2022 report from the Virginia Read More