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Modern Heresy

By Donald Livingston

Essayist William Deresiewicz recently lamented that modern college students, and college life in general, have become “profoundly unintellectual.” The “snowflake” generation is the byproduct of educational institutionalization. Will this be on the test, and will… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • Marshall DeRosa
  • Political Correctness

Sixteenth Annual Abbeville Institute Summer School

By Donald Livingston

Southern Identity Through Southern Music St Christopher Conference Center, July 15-20, 2018 Seabrook Island, South Carolina Music has been described as “the soul of the world embedded in sound.” Southern music exemplifies the traditions and… »

  • 2018 Summer School: Southern Identity Through Southern Music

The Disintegration of Lincolnian America

By Donald Livingston
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  • 2018 Scholars Conference: Attacking Confederate Monuments and its Meaning for America
  • Donald Livingston

Student Experiences “Head-On Racism” at the University of South Carolina?

By Donald Livingston

Tobias Lanz has been an adjunct professor of political science for some twenty years at the University of South Carolina. In a class of 200 students cell phones go off, and Lanz eases the interruption… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • Political Correctness
  • Tobias Lanz

Calhoun’s Meaning that “Slavery is a Positive Good”?

By Donald Livingston

John C. Calhoun–valedictorian of his class at Yale, Vice President, Secretary of War, and Senator–was one of the greatest statesmen America has produced. Margaret Coit wrote a favorable biography of him in 1950 that won… »

  • Donald Livingston
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Political Correctness

Charleston, SC: Attacking Confederate Monuments and Its Meaning for America

By Donald Livingston

Before “political correctness,” Americans respected Confederate memorials. They knew the War was a conflict that went back to the founding fathers and that the secessionist descendants of Jefferson were as much good Americans as the… »

What is Wrong With Ideology?

By Donald Livingston
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  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
  • Donald Livingston

Southern Identity and Its Contested Relation to “American” Identity

By Donald Livingston
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  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
  • Donald Livingston

Fifteenth Abbeville Institute Summer School

By Donald Livingston

ON BEING SOUTHERN IN AN AGE OF RADICALISM St Christopher Conference Center, July 9-14, 2017 Seabrook Island, South Carolina The South has a depth of meaning not available to other regions of the country. It… »

  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism

When the South Was America 1607-1861

By Donald Livingston

Dr. Donald Livingston on “When the South Was America, 1607-1861” at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School on “The Southern Tradition and the Renewal of America,” June 2016.

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