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John Brown’s Body

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement (Uncommon Books, 1993) by Otto Scott. The Leftist political violence that has engulfed the disintegrating American nation for much of the past year… »

  • Abolitionists
  • John Brown
  • Neil Kumar
  • Northern Studies
  • War for Southern Independence

The Battle of Athens, Tennessee

By Neil Kumar

On August 1, 1946, a group of Southern World War Two veterans in Athens, Tennessee, fought and won the only successful armed insurrection in the United States since the War of Independence. These brave men… »

  • Battle of Athens
  • Neil Kumar
  • New South
  • Southern History

The Fire Eater

By Neil Kumar

Edmund Ruffin, the consummate Fire-Eater, was far greater than the sum of his parts; as Avery Craven, the finest of his biographers, expressed, “as the greatest agriculturist in a rural civilization; one of the first… »

  • Edumund Ruffin
  • Neil Kumar
  • Secession
  • War for Southern Independence

The Seventeenth Amendment and the Siren Song of Democracy

By Neil Kumar

A Review of The Road to Mass Democracy: Original Intent and the Seventeenth Amendment (Routledge, 2017) by C.H. Hoebeke On April 8, 1913, the requisite three quarters of the State legislatures kneecapped themselves, surrendering to… »

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  • United States Constitution

The Shame of Bentonville

By Neil Kumar

Bentonville is the lovely little town in Northwest Arkansas that I have spent nearly my entire life in. At the heart of Bentonville, in the center of our town square, there has rested a Confederate… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Neil Kumar
  • Political Correctness
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God’s Country Shall Not Be Damned

By Neil Kumar

In Memory of Dr. Neil Compton, Arkansas Hero, 1912-1999 Neil Compton of Bentonville, Arkansas, my beloved hometown, stands as a paragon of civic virtue. Born in Falling Springs, western Benton County, he lived with his… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Arkansas
  • Buffalo River
  • Neil Compton
  • Neil Kumar
  • Ozark Society

The South Lives Yet

By Neil Kumar

I recently wrote that “our South still exists, and not only in our own hearts; dotted throughout the former Confederacy lie pockets of that Edenic idyll our ancestors fought so bitterly to preserve.” On a… »

  • Alabama
  • Mississippi
  • Neil Kumar
  • Southern Tradition

The Duty of the Hour

By Neil Kumar

The first thing I learned about Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest was that he had twenty-nine horses shot out from under him in battle; in my fifth-grade social studies class, I remember thinking to myself that… »

  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Neil Kumar
  • War for Southern Independence

An Environmental Right

By Neil Kumar

I started my political journey on what I thought to be the Left. Books like Klein’s The Shock Doctrine resonated with me, as did films like American Beauty and Revolutionary Road. My favorite childhood films… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Neil Kumar
  • Secession
  • Southern Conservatism

Charge! and Remember Jackson

By Neil Kumar

Lieutenant-General Thomas Jonathan ‘Stonewall’ Jackson was the greatest martyr of our Cause, the first icon of the War for Southern Independence. He was the archetypal Christian soldier; there is infinite wisdom to be gleaned from… »

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  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Stonewall Jackson
  • War for Southern Independence

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