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In the rural Virginia town of Swoope, near the Shenandoah Valley, Joel Salatin practices common…
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Andrew Nelson Lytle—novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature—extolled the order of the family, which…
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The flourishing of art is necessary for the preservation of any people or tradition. Over-reliance…
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The following is an excerpt from an article by a man named Troy Cauley. It…
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This essay was originally published in the February 1936 issue of The American Review. Years…
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I hope Grandfather fed them wellFrom out his meager store of cornOr fodder pulled by…
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From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
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From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
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From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
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From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on "Who Owns America?" October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston,…
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Edited by Robert Hoyle. A Discourse delivered at the Annual Commencement of Hampden-Sydney College, June…
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The chief conflict in American history was and remains the conflict between the center and…
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It is not often enough, but I do set aside blocks of time to express…
Joshua DoggrellNovember 12, 2020
Not long after I moved my family to Bangkok, Thailand — where we lived for…
Casey ChalkSeptember 23, 2020
Travel writing about the American South is a genre of its own. One such observer…
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“Do you mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that Tara, that land, doesn't mean…
Travis HoltSeptember 21, 2020
Have any of you all heard about the film, "General Orders No. 9" ? It's…
Alphonse-Louis VinhAugust 31, 2020
I was raised in one of the poorest counties in North West Arkansas, where my…
Travis HoltAugust 18, 2020
In Memory of Dr. Neil Compton, Arkansas Hero, 1912-1999 Neil Compton of Bentonville, Arkansas, my…
Neil KumarJune 4, 2020
Part of the blood that flows through the veins of the Southern ethnos is French…
Walt GarlingtonMay 26, 2020
In Ideas Have Consequences (1948), Richard Weaver described comfort as the god of modern man. …
William J. WatkinsMarch 30, 2020
“Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…
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A review of The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the…
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A review of Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (ISI Books, 1999) edited…
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A review of Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1992)…
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A review of Wendell Berry: Port William Novels and Stories (Library of America, 2018), Jack…
Rafael AlvarezOctober 15, 2019
George Mason, like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, was happiest at home, either in the…
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A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…
Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
A review of How To Be a Conservative (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015), by Sir Roger Scruton.…
Nicole WilliamsJuly 2, 2019
Genetically engineered crops have been grown in large numbers across the States since 1996. These…
Walt GarlingtonJune 12, 2019
For all of the pontificating of the virtues of the South, we have increasingly seen…
Nicole WilliamsDecember 3, 2018
A review of Andrew Durnford, A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South by David O.…
Vito MussomeliNovember 20, 2018
A review of Taking Root: The Nature Writing of William and Adam Summer of Pomaria…
Alan HarrelsonOctober 16, 2018
Having traveled in all fifty states, I must admit there are certain areas of this…
Cary LindsayOctober 12, 2018
Jimmy Carter may have been the last Jeffersonian to be president. A recent article in…
Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2018
They were standing at the ledge. Their view mirrored a panorama of buildings and smoke…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 13, 2018
Mel Bradford has argued that no individual has exerted more influence upon the development of…
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When William Jennings Bryan died in 1925, H.L. Mencken wrote a scathing eulogy stating: “There…
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If you travel I-20 east from Jackson, Mississippi, somewhere about 20 miles short of Meridian…
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When I was very young, I recall my father telling me of George "No-Show" Jones,…
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“The modern man has lost his sense of vocation.” “A Statement of Principles,” I’ll Take…
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I have made a discovery. There does, indeed, exist a place where nobody wants to…
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Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the, symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…
Andrew Nelson LytleApril 20, 2017
William S. Belko, Philip Pendleton Barbour in Jacksonian America: An Old Republican in King Andrew’s…
Brion McClanahanJanuary 6, 2017
This essay was originally published at The Deliberate Agrarian. It occurred to me today that…
Herrick KimballOctober 27, 2016
Omitting minor points of difference, it may be said that “the difference between the old…
Thomas E. WatsonOctober 11, 2016
Reprinted from The Deliberate Agrarian. Part I and Part II Back in August of last…
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Editor's note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow's Review in…
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Reprinted from The Deliberate Agrarian. We are not called to be slaves. In My Previous Blog…
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This essay was originally published at The Deliberate Agrarian. In my previous blog post I…
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Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I'll Take My Stand, only three are…
Andrew Nelson LytleAugust 23, 2016
General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…
Clyde WilsonAugust 10, 2016
This essay was published as a new introduction for Lytle's Bedford Forrest and His Critter…
Andrew Nelson LytleJuly 13, 2016
The one consolation of the Antifederalist persuasion is telling everyone you meet “I told you…
John DevannyJuly 8, 2016
This essay was originally published in Louis D. Rubin, Jr., The American South: Portrait of a…
John Shelton ReedJune 30, 2016
This essay was originally printed at The Imaginative Conservative. Among the contributions to I’ll Take…
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This post was originally published at The Deliberate Agrarian. The original strength of our American…
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Over time a man, if he is perceptive, comes to certain conclusions. The most startling…
Barry ClarkFebruary 23, 2016
A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York:…
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This essay was published in Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their…
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Recent attempts made by the left and the right to make Pope Francis one of…
Brion McClanahanOctober 1, 2015
At the farmer’s market on Saturday morning a question often expressed is, “are you an…
Chris JacksonAugust 21, 2015
Now that a third Reconstruction is very much underway in the South, it is more…
Walt GarlingtonAugust 11, 2015
Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
One of America's most successful diplomats of the 20th century, was Horace C. Holmes, who…
Joscelyn DunlopJuly 21, 2015
This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan magazine in 1986. Some miles beyond Charlotte…
Russell KirkJune 2, 2015
This essay served as the introduction to Why the South Will Survive(University of Georgia Press,…
Clyde WilsonApril 29, 2015
An address delivered on August 10, 1950, before the annual reunion of the Weaver family.…
Richard M. WeaverApril 27, 2015
Henry Timrod, the greatest Southern poet next to Edgar Allan Poe, the "Poet Laureate of…
William CawthonMarch 2, 2015
What exactly makes the South, the South? Hosts of scholars have puzzled mightily over this…
John DevannyFebruary 26, 2015
It has been fifty-seven years since the Weaverville, North Carolina native Richard Weaver (1910-1963) published…
James Ronald KennedyFebruary 23, 2015
Coal miners have their canaries; we have colinus virginiánus, the bobwhite quail. Like the canary…
John DevannyFebruary 9, 2015
I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
States’ rights may have been the defining force in Antebellum America, but modern, mainstream historians…
James Rutledge RoeschDecember 19, 2014
Part V of a Five Part Series. Part I, II, III, and IV. 1. Taylor…
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Geologists say Earth’s clay is dust of star. That I believe But not from science…
James Everett KiblerDecember 4, 2014
Cold metal arms, skeletal, sepulchral, Reaching upwards, grasping. Devil's towers topped with devil's claws, Tearing…
Walt GarlingtonOctober 29, 2014
Originally published at the Jenny Jack Sun Farm blog, August 2014. The old man in…
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If you were to conjure up an image in your head of an exploitive, money-grubbing…
Tom DanielOctober 14, 2014
When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…
Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
The fall vegetable garden is a delight in the Mid-South. The greens and reds are…
John DevannySeptember 5, 2014
This morning the farm looked especially inviting, like a photographed far off place meant to…
Chris JacksonAugust 14, 2014
Dislocation brings with it a multiplicity of dissonance. Moving disrupts the consonance of time and…
John DevannyJuly 17, 2014
The Callaway Gardens visitors center in Pine Mountain, Georgia shows a film explaining the history…
Brion McClanahanMay 5, 2014
Although I’m not a mountain man, and I would never dare call myself smart enough…
Tom DanielMay 1, 2014
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Chris JacksonApril 25, 2014
A phenomenon that has always intrigued me is how certain books achieved importance not because…
Gail JarvisApril 24, 2014
The consummation of farming year number six arrived abruptly, almost automatic like the next breath.…
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