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It is disturbing when you see a man like Tucker Carlson, who seems a reasonably…
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The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention…
John DevannyNovember 20, 2019
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Allen MendenhallOctober 11, 2019
In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked,…
Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2019
“I plainly perceive that the time will come when a shirt shall not be washed…
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John DevannyFebruary 7, 2019
Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of…
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A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017.…
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John DevannyJune 9, 2017
Although the nation recently recognized the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of…
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Every student of history knows at least a brief sketch of the Whiskey Rebellion of…
Brion McClanahanSeptember 23, 2016
General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…
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I am writing in response to the recently posted piece at the Minneapolis Star Tribune,…
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There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old…
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“. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They…
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Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…
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This speech was delivered before the annual meeting of the Georgia Bar Association at Tybee…
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A Sympathy for Disunion "This, Mr. President, is not a government founded upon compact; it…
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Delivered at the Blount County Courthouse, January 19, 2015. Robert E. Lee said “Everyone…
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Protecting Our People in the Era of Islamic Terror & Ebola Within a few days…
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Part II of a Five Part Series. Part I 1. Liberalism Taylor stood on liberal…
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This essay appears in Clyde Wilson and Brion McClanahan, Forgotten Conservatives in American History and…
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This is Part I of four letters that originally appeared in the Richmond Enquirer in…
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“…the borrower is servant to him that lendeth” (Proverbs 22:7) “There is an elegant memorial…
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