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The Statue of Liberty is Falling to Pieces, and I’m Glad

By Thomas Landess

I don’t like the thing. I hate what it stands for, and I respect the givers even less than I respect the gift. Most of the problems we face today can be traced to the… »

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The Southern Tradition: Twenty Years After Richard Weaver

By Thomas Landess

The image of Richard Weaver that sticks in my memory is a disturbing one. He is standing before an audience in a conference room at Vanderbilt University, his gnome-like features barely rising above the tall,… »

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End of an Era

By Thomas Landess

I was saddened to hear that Phil Harris had died. I knew the man. You might say we were old friends. As a matter of fact, we first met in 1954 in Monterey, California. I… »

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With Friends Like That…

By Thomas Landess

The recent Klan activities in Forsyth County, Georgia and Summerville, South Carolina make it more and more difficult for those of us who are trying to keep the battle flag flying and Dixie in the… »

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The Real Reason Confederate Symbols are Attacked

By Thomas Landess

This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1994. By the 1970s, all vestiges of legal discrimination in the South had been eliminated. Indeed, affirmative action programs, minority entitlements, and special considerations in the… »

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Republican Death Wish

By Thomas Landess

As readers of this column well know, I have never really trusted the Republican Party. Even in 1962, when I first worked actively for a Republican candidate (the late Bill Workman), I saw the arrogance… »

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Supping with Norman Lear

By Thomas Landess

Editor’s note: Norman Lear’s People for the American Way recently made a lot of noise about Donald Trump’s “hate speech.” Not much has changed in twenty years. This piece was originally published in in First… »

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Freedom and More Freedom

By Thomas Landess

Several years ago a friend of mine, head of the Education Department at a Southern university, came reeling back from a visit to New York City schools, eyes glazed. It seems that she had seen… »

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The Dark Side of Abraham Lincoln

By Thomas Landess

By way of prologue, let me say that all of us like the Lincoln whose face appears on the penny. He is the Lincoln of myth: kindly, hum­ble, a man of sorrows who believes in… »

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The Southern Agrarians: Some Personal Recollections by Tom Landess

By Thomas Landess
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