by editor | Jun 8, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan
We lived in Belgium in the late 1960s while my father researched for his dissertation. I was too young to remember, but my mother told me that, while traveling in France, we were greeted by a standing ovation at a restaurant because we were Americans, and American...
by editor | Jun 8, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan
COLUMBIA — From the marshy lowlands of the South Carolina coast to the rocky peaks of the Upstate mountains, the Palmetto Trail will eventually meander more than 500 miles. Hikers might run across the remnants of an old liquor still in a Lowcountry swamp, an old water...
by editor | Jun 7, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Restraint is a useful but often unsatisfying virtue, and in the case of Ukraine, there are plenty of people who think that it’s not a virtue at all. Fortunately, American policy is being set by Joe Biden, who has a sober understanding of the perils of overreach....
by editor | Jun 6, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan
LOUISIANA: Vote Means 2 Confederate Holidays Going Away BATON ROUGE, La. — House-passed legislation to erase Robert E. Lee Day and Confederate Memorial Day from a list of Louisiana holidays was approved 28-4 on Friday by the state Senate. The measure by state Rep....
by editor | Jun 1, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan
When the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that God was dead, he didn’t mean it literally, as that would have been impossible. He meant that God’s creatures have so failed to acknowledge Him and relate to Him, it is as if He decided to end...
by editor | May 31, 2022 | Archive, Southern Partisan
WASHINGTON — A Black sergeant who battled German soldiers during World War I. The Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. A woman who served as an Army surgeon during the Civil War. A commission established by Congress last year has suggested new names for nine Army...