Blog “National Unity” is a Mirage Now, after what may have been a racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo (May 14) by…Boyd CatheyMay 17, 2022
Blog Abraham Lincoln and the Ghost of Karl Marx Back in early 1981 the brilliant Southern scholar and traditionalist, Professor Mel Bradford, was…Boyd CatheyMarch 14, 2022
Blog Adventures in Southern and Confederate Cinema Recently a friend of mine asked me to list my ten favorite films about…Boyd CatheyFebruary 14, 2022
Blog Martin Luther King Day and the Destruction of the American Republic As is my custom, each year for the Federal holiday celebrating Martin Luther King (whose…Boyd CatheyJanuary 17, 2022
Blog When Hollywood Rode Right Although Hollywood is now considered a monolithic bastion of leftist and “woke” political and cultural…Boyd CatheyDecember 10, 2021
Blog Thanksgiving 2021 The Thanksgiving holiday always puts me in mind of the history of this country from…Boyd CatheyNovember 29, 2021
Blog The Devils in the Demonstrators I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State…Boyd CatheyNovember 12, 2021
Blog Why Do They Hate The South? Dr. Paul Gottfried's speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840…Boyd CatheyNovember 5, 2021
Blog Our Solemn Task as Southerners Over the past several years I have been writing essays for several publications and…Boyd CatheyOctober 18, 2021
Blog White Rice is Racist The latest major study issued by a blue-ribbon commission on racism infecting American culture comes…Boyd CatheyOctober 5, 2021
Blog The National Archives Labels the Constitution “Racist” I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised. After all it was completely logical, the inevitable…Boyd CatheySeptember 29, 2021
Blog The Unwanted Southern Conservatives No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Blog Can the South Rise Again? Growing up in mostly-rural North Carolina, most of my friends and especially their parents could…Boyd CatheyAugust 16, 2021
Blog The End of America? I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
Blog How Southerners Committed Cultural and Political Suicide Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
Blog Independence Day and the Preservation of History July 4, “Independence Day,” has become for most Americans little more than another holiday, a…Boyd CatheyJuly 5, 2021
Blog When Bing Crosby Sang Dixie In past columns I have written about some classic films, some of which have been…Boyd CatheyJune 30, 2021
Blog Defending the West Against the Barbarians Sometimes readers will ask me: “Why did you write on that? What were you trying to…Boyd CatheyJune 17, 2021
Blog Abraham Lincoln and the Misinterpretation of American History The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
Blog “Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home” Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
Blog The Disappearance of Southern Conservatism Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
Blog Equality is NOT America’s Founding Principle Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost…Boyd CatheyApril 19, 2021
Blog Firetrail For some time now I have had a passion for classic films, in particular those…Boyd CatheyMarch 17, 2021
Blog What 2020 Means for Southerners During the past couple of months, from shortly after the presidential election until now, seven…Boyd CatheyJanuary 4, 2021
Blog The Future of Fox News and the Future of America It happened on Saturday morning, November 14, 2020, at around 8:15 EST. I had switched…Boyd CatheyNovember 18, 2020
Blog Is Separation the Answer? As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six…Boyd CatheyNovember 9, 2020
Blog The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each…Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2020
Blog Sampson County and the Defense of Western Civilization Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan…Boyd CatheySeptember 30, 2020
Blog Cancel Culture Comes South These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled. For Southerners we…Boyd CatheySeptember 10, 2020
Blog Cancel Culture Comes to Wake Forest, North Carolina Photo by Martin Fried I have written previously about the very real dangers of what…Boyd CatheyAugust 24, 2020
Blog Cancel Culture Will Decimate Us–If We Let It Often as I work at my computer I keep on the Sirius FM Classical Music…Boyd CatheyJuly 15, 2020
Blog “Let the Rioters do their Worst; I won’t Stand in Their way!” Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina comes across as a nice man, well-mannered, calm, the…Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2020
Blog The Egalitarian Myth and Secession Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
Blog Every Southerner Needs This Magazine On various occasions I’ve made references to Chronicles Magazine and cited articles printed in it. Remarkably, Chronicles is the only print…Boyd CatheyApril 22, 2020
Blog Never Trumpers Like Joe Biden and Hate the South Thoughtful Southerners of a conservative and traditional bent have known since the 1980s that the…Boyd CatheyApril 2, 2020
Blog Silent Sam and Inconvenient History All across the Southland today efforts have been mounted by “woke” social justice warriors—in most…Boyd CatheyFebruary 3, 2020
Blog As the Year 2020 Begins–Southerners Take Stock As 2020 commences it is perhaps appropriate that we take stock—that we take a look…Boyd CatheyJanuary 13, 2020
Blog Steel Creek Church and the Airport Early this past summer the historic Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, near the city of Charlotte,…Boyd CatheyDecember 2, 2019
Blog What the Historic South has to Teach America Many present-day Southerners—indeed, many of those Americans who call themselves “conservatives”—find it difficult to envisage…Boyd CatheyNovember 14, 2019
Blog What Jefferson Davis Would Tell Us Today (And Why It Matters) In our turbulent times it is increasingly evident that our government is disconnected to the…Boyd CatheyOctober 28, 2019
Blog How the Neocons are Helping Destroy Western Civilization Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
Blog The Defense of Southern History From late 1983 until its fitful demise in the early 2000s, I served as a…Boyd CatheySeptember 18, 2019
Blog The Revolt Against Christian Civilization: The Southern View Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their…Boyd CatheySeptember 9, 2019
Blog Is Political Separation in Our Future? In a recent column, “Nationalism vs. Secession: Should America Break Up? (July 27), I included…Boyd CatheyAugust 19, 2019
Blog Is it Time for America to Break Apart? There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work…Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2019
Blog Song of the South and the Assault on Culture Most of us, even the youngest, have heard of the magnificent Disney film, “Song of…Boyd CatheyJuly 25, 2019
Review Posts Dabney on Fire A review of Dabney on Fire: A Theology of Parenting, Education, Feminism, and Government (2019)…Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2019
Blog Remembering Real Southern Statesmen Over the years I have known a few—very few—politicians whom I have admired greatly. It…Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2019
Blog The Death of a Christian “Knight Without Fear”–RIP Aaron Wolf A week ago Sunday—Easter Sunday, April 21—Aaron D. Wolf, Executive Editor of Chronicles Magazine, passed…Boyd CatheyMay 1, 2019
Blog Critical Race Theory and the Verdict of R.L. Dabney Back last year an OpEd piece showed up in The News & Observer by one…Boyd CatheyApril 15, 2019
Blog The Leftist Long March, “Silent Sam,” and the REAL Question Most every Thursday I gather with a group of friends for lunch at some restaurant…Boyd CatheyApril 1, 2019
Blog Crazed Leftists Strike Again For thirty-one years the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has sponsored…Boyd CatheyMarch 11, 2019
Blog The Idea of Equality in America Given what is occurring in our society and culture, the ever increasing frenzy and hysteria…Boyd CatheyFebruary 13, 2019
Blog Is Secession the Answer? Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding…Boyd CatheyFebruary 4, 2019
Blog What Country Legend Roy Clark’s Death Symbolizes for America in 2018 The news came Thursday, November 15, that country music legend, Virginia-born Roy Clark had passed…Boyd CatheyNovember 28, 2018
Blog The Multicultural Politically Correct Briar Patch Despite the establishment attempts to throttle free speech—most recently actions taken by PayPal, by Google,…Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2018
Blog A Battle for Western Civilization and the South On Monday night, August 20, 2018, approximately 200 to 250 raucous demonstrators gathered in a…Boyd CatheyAugust 23, 2018
Blog The Death of Historical Accuracy In case you haven’t heard, there is a new “conservative” film out; it is titled…Boyd CatheyAugust 6, 2018
Blog Leftist Crazies Don’t Want You to Exist I try to collect all the business that I must do in Raleigh into one…Boyd CatheyJuly 5, 2018
Blog Was Lee a Traitor? Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
Blog Defending the Monuments After the Charleston shooting in 2015, all across the old Confederacy memorials, monuments, flags and…Boyd CatheyMay 30, 2018
Blog How the Neocons Destroyed Southern Conservatism No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly…Boyd CatheyMay 2, 2018
Blog Victor Davis Hanson Hates the Confederacy…and the South “Conservative” writer and classicist Victor Davis Hanson hates the Confederacy and the South; he has…Boyd CatheyApril 12, 2018
Review Posts Souls of Lions A review of R. E. Mitchell. Souls of Lions (Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse LLC, 2014). Very…Boyd CatheyFebruary 20, 2018
Blog Memphis and the Assault on Our Western Christian Inheritance The city fathers of Memphis have been engaged in police state tactics and patently illegal…Boyd CatheyJanuary 22, 2018
Blog Lee, Kelly, and the Marxists You would think that David Duke had somehow been elected president. Or, maybe in this…Boyd CatheyNovember 15, 2017
Blog Demonizing the South to Purify the Nation Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most lauded and applauded historians of the “conservative…Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2017
Blog The Marxist Campaign to Transform America The present feverish campaign to remove Confederate monuments and other symbols which offend certain loud…Boyd CatheyOctober 6, 2017
Blog The Historical Folly of “Nothing but Race.” At the base of most of the ongoing political debates currently raging in the United…Boyd CatheySeptember 20, 2017
Blog Robert Lewis Dabney: A Prophet for Our Own Times A number of years ago I became interested in the writings of the great Southern…Boyd CatheyJuly 26, 2017
Blog Robert Lewis Dabney and the New South Creed Only a few prominent Southerners actively questioned the call for the rapid industrialization of the…Boyd CatheyJuly 14, 2017
Blog Robert E. Lee, Revolution, and the Question of Historical Memory Two weeks ago New Orleans removed its Robert E. Lee Monument, one of four that…Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2017
Blog New Orleans: A People Without A Past Have No Future Early this morning the local television station WRAL, Raleigh, NC, broadcast news that the first of…Boyd CatheyApril 25, 2017
Blog What Was Lost 150 Years Ago One-hundred and fifty-two years ago, April 9, 1865 was a Palm Sunday just as today,…Boyd CatheyApril 13, 2017
Review Posts A New Reconstruction: The Renewed Assault on Southern Heritage This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 2015
Blog “A Sickness in the Public Mind”: The Battle Flag and the Attack on Western Culture Back in mid-June, after the Charleston shootings, the frenzied hue and cry went up and…Boyd CatheyAugust 4, 2015
Blog A Letter from North Carolina As residents here in the Tar Heel State know, the boards of several of the state's public…Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2015
Blog On Abraham Lincoln and the Inversion of American History Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
Blog The Eternal ‘Rebel Yell’ Recently, a friend sent me a link on the Smithsonian web site to a 1930…Boyd CatheyMarch 26, 2015
Blog Nathaniel Macon and the Origin of States’ Rights Conservatism This essay was first published at Unz Review on November 23, 2014. Back in 1975…Boyd CatheyDecember 17, 2014
Blog Classic Confederate Hollywood Recent releases of four classic films should gladden the hearts of patriotic Southerners and those…Boyd CatheyJuly 30, 2014
Blog Mel Bradford and the Defense of Southern Conservatism This past May 8 would have been the late Melvin E. Bradford's 80th birthday. That…Boyd CatheyJuly 17, 2014
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