Blog Contextualizing Southern Heritage A semantic technique that has worked well for political types is renaming things to make…Gail JarvisAugust 16, 2019
Blog Are Confederate Memorials Preventing “Social Justice?” As a stalwart Southerner who came of age before the 1960s, its hard to believe…Gail JarvisMay 8, 2019
Blog First They Came for Southern Heritage The so-called Civil Rights movement began in the mid-1950s with goals of ending segregation and…Gail JarvisFebruary 28, 2019
Blog History as a (Leftist) Weapon There is a tendency for each generation to assume its opinions are the ultimate correct…Gail JarvisAugust 30, 2018
Blog The Wrong Side of History I've always been fascinated by those tricky slogans politicians and social activists use to dupe…Gail JarvisJune 1, 2018
Blog Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite The old adage “history repeats itself'' refers to striking similarities between past events and contemporary…Gail JarvisApril 30, 2018
Blog New Orleans Remains in Crisis After Historic Monuments Removed An international organization recently released a ranking of the 50 most dangerous cities in the…Gail JarvisApril 2, 2018
Blog The Pseudoscience Attack on the South The term “science” is applied rather loosely today. In some cases what we call science…Gail JarvisMarch 1, 2018
Blog The Elite vs. The Deplorables For most of our nation's two and a half century history, newspapers were the essential…Gail JarvisJanuary 15, 2018
Blog An Expired Narrative Portraying a furtive agenda as a benevolent endeavor has occurred frequently throughout our history. Unscrupulous…Gail JarvisNovember 6, 2017
Blog Eliminating Dixie Means Eliminating America A few years ago Stephen Fry, English actor, writer, and comic, hosted a televised tour…Gail JarvisOctober 5, 2017
Blog Is 19th Century Slavery Harming 21st Century Black Americans? Today's Americans are not nearly as gullible as the Leftist establishment seems to think. Also,…Gail JarvisAugust 17, 2017
Blog Carpetbagging Southern History A common technique of Liberal ideologues is to change the meanings of words to suit…Gail JarvisJuly 10, 2017
Blog New Orleans Mayor Hypes His Cultural Cleansing Political correctness didn't succeed as well as the Left had hoped it would because PC…Gail JarvisJune 8, 2017
Blog New Orleans is Ground Zero The social justice jihad to eliminate “white supremacy” was spawned by the successful eradication of…Gail JarvisMay 5, 2017
Blog Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans When you read about the worst cities in the United States you’ll find that they…Gail JarvisApril 7, 2017
Blog The Media’s Failed “Southern Strategy” Source: Washington Post After its usual clichéd arguments weren't lessening Trump's momentum, the mainstream media…Gail JarvisNovember 17, 2016
Blog A Book for a Southerner’s Bookshelf Recently a commencement speaker exhorted graduating students to "be on the right side of history."…Gail JarvisJuly 7, 2016
Blog A Brave New World Friedich Nietzsche's statement: "There are no facts, only interpretations" is essentially true about social sciences…Gail JarvisApril 29, 2016
Review Posts The Destruction of Old Sheldon Church and Other Ravages of War From time to time an unsuspecting tourist visiting the ruins of the Old Sheldon Church…Gail JarvisMarch 22, 2016
Blog A Tale of Two Southern Books This time of year we begin seeing recommendations of books for Christmas presents. This article…Gail JarvisFebruary 29, 2016
Blog The Confederacy, Oscars, and Social Justice "Social Justice" is one of today's manipulative phrases. In this case "justice" is defined as…Gail JarvisFebruary 4, 2016
Blog So Red the Rose You might not find Stark Young's So Red The Rose in current recommendations of novels…Gail JarvisDecember 31, 2015
Blog A Christmas Story for the Old South This piece was originally published on the Canada Free Press. Much to the annoyance of…Gail JarvisDecember 24, 2015
Blog Is The Campaign To Eradicate Southern Heritage Losing Steam? The concept of a panacea has always fascinated me, the idea that there is a…Gail JarvisNovember 20, 2015
Blog Calhoun and Yale I can still recall one of my college economics professor's witticisms. When a student mentioned…Gail JarvisOctober 26, 2015
Blog Revisiting 25 Years of Revisionist Claptrap With its usual promotional hype, PBS re-broadcasted its 1990 program The Civil War. This 25-year-old…Gail JarvisSeptember 24, 2015
Blog Will Today’s Activists Be Able To Make Robert E. Lee A Villain? Persons interviewed on those amusing and disturbing videos by satirist Mark Dice, were unaware of…Gail JarvisAugust 13, 2015
Blog The Literature Police and Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind was enthusiastically received when it was published but it…Gail JarvisJune 22, 2015
Blog No History, No Culture, No Past The title of this article is how the radical Muslim organization, ISIS, characterizes its…Gail JarvisMay 14, 2015
Blog The Old South,The New South, and The Neutered South The phrase, "The New South", appears in the 1886 speech that Atlanta newspaper editor, Henry…Gail JarvisApril 6, 2015
Blog Is Disparaging the South Becoming Passe? The lack of interest in the film "Selma" by both the public and the film…Gail JarvisFebruary 6, 2015
Blog Robert E. Lee, Southern Heritage, Media Bias, and Al Sharpton This piece originally appeared on the Canada Free Press. As you can probably surmise by…Gail JarvisJanuary 19, 2015
Blog Lanterns on the Levee The books found on library shelves began changing some time ago. The intellectual interests of…Gail JarvisAugust 26, 2014
Blog A Semantic Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing Statements that disparage the South and its culture are typical of our times. In fact,…Gail JarvisJuly 29, 2014
Blog Rose of Dixie Few American authors wrote as many stories set in the old South as William Sydney…Gail JarvisJuly 1, 2014
Blog The Other Side of Slavery The concept of a faithful slave goes against today's authorized slave narratives. Before the social…Gail JarvisMay 26, 2014
Blog The Other Side of Slavery The concept of a faithful slave goes against today's authorized slave narratives. Before the social…Gail JarvisMay 26, 2014
Blog The Accommodating Mind of Wilbur Cash A phenomenon that has always intrigued me is how certain books achieved importance not because…Gail JarvisApril 24, 2014
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