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Matthew Conard

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Maryland, My Maryland

I enjoy studying maps. I especially enjoy maps of the ‘what-if’ scenarios if certain courses in history played out differently, but also the constant debate regarding cultural borders within the US. I frequently analyze the border of the cultural South, as I have cause to believe the South is shrinking faster than most would want to accept. This turf war…
Matthew Conard
July 29, 2026
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Where Were Your People in 1776?

"If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." -Michael Crichton, Timeline The quote attributed to Karl Marx, “If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded,” also applies. As does Orwell’s “Who controls the past controls the future.…
Matthew Conard
July 14, 2026
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Whither Leviathan

This is part 2 of my economic lamentations of 21st century America, continuing from my May 18th article ‘Modern Industrialism Is Betraying Us’. On the subject of a nation, I ask myself: what is the purpose of a nation? Is it security, economy, control, binding of a people, or some form of all these things? When so many elements of…
Matthew Conard
June 24, 2026
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Dixie Book of Days

The Dixie Book of Days by Matthew Page Andrews, 1912 Like many of us today I receive the most interesting news and event notifications through group chats. In one of such group chats a friend sent a picture of a book with a succinct and articulate paragraph of one of the kindest epitaphs to receive: bravery, honesty, love of truth.…
Matthew Conard
May 29, 2026
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Modern Industrialism Is Betraying Us

We are near 100 years after I'll Take My Stand emerged into the zeitgeist – a salvo at the leviathan hyper industrial economic system rapidly encroaching into all regions of the United States. The 12 Southern authors could perhaps divine what level of societal destabilization would happen by the year 2030 at the trajectory in 1930, but I'd wager modern…
Matthew Conard
May 18, 2026