by editor | Jan 23, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
When Crystal Wilkinson wants to summon her kitchen ghosts, she retrieves a fuchsia-hued dress from her closet and hangs it in the doorway. The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in...
by editor | Jan 23, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The New York Times put Charles Murray on the cover of its Sunday Magazine, calling him “The Most Dangerous Conservative.” That was after he co-wrote the book, “The Bell Curve,” which argued that different ethnic groups have, on average,...
by editor | Jan 22, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
SOUTH CAROLINA: Saluda, S.C.: Where Texas Began SALUDA , S.C.– In a state that has long embraced lost causes like the Civil War, Saluda County has a special fondness for one that happened a thousand miles away. The county, nestled in the pine forests and rolling...
by editor | Jan 18, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Just as a fictional emperor paid his tailors a fortune for clothes that no one could see, and then marched naked in a grand public procession while his subjects roared with laughter, so, too, is President Joe Biden attempting to march clothed with the Constitution he...
by editor | Jan 17, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Reconstruction might be the single most difficult moment in the American past. It came in the wake of what might be the bravest moment, the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. But the vividness of the war years only makes the failures of Reconstruction...
by editor | Jan 16, 2024 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Is democracy at risk this election year? Yup, is the answer given by President Joe Biden in his speech last Friday, ahead of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the United States Capitol as both houses of Congress were assembled to receive the...