Blog An Adopted Valley Virginian While teaching at the University of Virginia, William Faulkner once remarked: “'I like Virginia and…Casey ChalkMay 16, 2022
Blog Til Hazel’s Virginia On March 15, John T. “Til” Hazel Jr. died in Broad Run, Fauquier County, Virginia.…Casey ChalkApril 1, 2022
Blog The Once Southern City I presume I am not the only person who thinks regularly about the strange reality…Casey ChalkMarch 11, 2022
Blog The South Has No Culture? I once broke up with a girl because of the South. Well, sort of. We…Casey ChalkFebruary 17, 2022
Blog Misdirected Outrage The federal government facilitates fundraising for traitors. That’s the claim made by the Washington Post’s…Casey ChalkJanuary 25, 2022
BlogReview Posts The Right Side of History A review of Robert E. Lee: A Life (Random House, 2021) by Allen Guelzo “How…Casey ChalkNovember 23, 2021
Blog Southern Hospitality in Asia Many years ago I spent five fantastic weeks in Boston during the fall. Though I…Casey ChalkNovember 15, 2021
Blog Poor Poe At the University of Virginia, Room No.13 on the fabled Lawn is reserved as a…Casey ChalkOctober 25, 2021
Blog A Good Southerner is Hard to Find Perhaps it was after watching yet another film depicting the South as irredeemably backwards and…Casey ChalkSeptember 21, 2021
Blog Staying Home Americans have a weird relationship with their roots. Most folk want to be from somewhere,…Casey ChalkAugust 23, 2021
Blog Who’s Your People? “Who's your people?” Though now somewhat rare, one still hears that question in Dixie, usually…Casey ChalkJuly 26, 2021
Blog The Latin South “The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised,”…Casey ChalkJune 23, 2021
Blog Slavery and Agency Reviewers are unrelenting in their praise for the new Amazon streaming television series The Underground…Casey ChalkMay 31, 2021
Blog Wokeism is Like Kudzu Wokeism is a bit like kudzu. It’s not indigenous to the South, but once it…Casey ChalkMay 6, 2021
Blog Woke Capitalism Guns for the South Major League Baseball on 2 April announced that both the All Star Game and the…Casey ChalkApril 8, 2021
Blog Dixie Ball It’s strange to think that until 1962 — when the Houston’s Colt .45’s enjoyed their…Casey ChalkApril 1, 2021
Blog A Yankee Who Understood Southerners “Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?” asks one of the characters on…Casey ChalkMarch 9, 2021
Blog Hillbilly Thomists What would you give in exchange for your soul? Bluegrass greats Bill Monroe and Doc…Casey ChalkFebruary 8, 2021
Blog A Southern Critique of Radical Chic “The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence,” observed Southern Gothic…Casey ChalkJanuary 11, 2021
Blog Identity Politics and the Southern Gentleman Earlier this year, shortly after the sad and unfortunate death of George Floyd in Minneapolis,…Casey ChalkDecember 10, 2020
Blog “Fight for Old Dixie!” This Thanksgiving, the second of three NFL games will feature one of the oldest (albeit…Casey ChalkNovember 26, 2020
Blog The Southern (Catholic) Tradition When asked why he was a Catholic, Southern author Walker Percy liked to provocatively respond,…Casey ChalkOctober 28, 2020
Blog The End of Reconciliation There’s something pernicious with the New York Times’ 1619 Project and its inversion of early…Casey ChalkOctober 13, 2020
Blog Jayber Crow Not long after I moved my family to Bangkok, Thailand — where we lived for…Casey ChalkSeptember 23, 2020
Blog Damn Right You Should Listen to the Blues “The blues ain’t nothin’ but a good man feelin’ bad,” according to “Negro Blues,” penned…Casey ChalkSeptember 9, 2020
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