Blog Economic Interpretation of American History This article was originally published in the May 1916 issue of the Journal of Political…William E. DoddOctober 14, 2021
Blog Who Owns America Today? The chief conflict in American history was and remains the conflict between the center and…John DevannyNovember 23, 2020
Blog Can the Southern Tradition Save America? “Where you gonna be when half of California riots? Where you gonna run to when…Brion McClanahanMarch 23, 2020
Blog Lies and Truths of Nationalism It is disturbing when you see a man like Tucker Carlson, who seems a reasonably…Paul H. YarbroughNovember 21, 2019
Blog Poison Under the Wings The beginning of the American political order goes much further back than the Philadelphia Convention…John DevannyNovember 20, 2019
Blog St. George Tucker’s Jeffersonian Constitution One could argue that there are two basic visions for America: the Hamiltonian and the…Allen MendenhallOctober 11, 2019
Blog The Challenge of the Southern Tradition In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked,…Brion McClanahanMarch 25, 2019
Blog A Little Whiskey Rebellion “I plainly perceive that the time will come when a shirt shall not be washed…Joe WolvertonFebruary 22, 2019
Blog Hamilton on Steroids “The revenue of the state is the state.” Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution…John DevannyFebruary 7, 2019
Blog Nullification and Secession: Solutions or Talking Points? Many of us in the South have maintained our faith in the Constitutional right of…James Ronald KennedySeptember 3, 2018
Review Posts How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017.…Clyde WilsonSeptember 19, 2017
Blog Yankee Finance Capitalism Part III: The Creature from Jekyll Island The endurance of the system of Jeffersonian finance based upon the Independent Treasury system was…John DevannyJune 16, 2017
Blog Yankee Finance Capitalism Part II: The Jeffersonian Triumph “The revenue of the state is the state.” Edmund Burke The rise of the modern…John DevannyJune 9, 2017
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Blog Washington’s Rye Every student of history knows at least a brief sketch of the Whiskey Rebellion of…Brion McClanahanSeptember 23, 2016
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Blog Jefferson Was Right I am writing in response to the recently posted piece at the Minneapolis Star Tribune,…Dave BennerDecember 14, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part I There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old…Clyde WilsonNovember 4, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Bailing the Capitalists: Our Southern Fathers Told Us What to Expect “. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They…Clyde WilsonAugust 26, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library A Jeffersonian Political Economy Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
Review Posts Judge Story’s Position On The So-Called General Welfare Clause This speech was delivered before the annual meeting of the Georgia Bar Association at Tybee…Henry St. George Tucker IIIJune 12, 2015
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Blog Fortress Dixie Protecting Our People in the Era of Islamic Terror & Ebola Within a few days…James Ronald KennedyOctober 15, 2014
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Review Posts Rights of the States and of the People This is Part I of four letters that originally appeared in the Richmond Enquirer in…Spencer RoaneAugust 21, 2014
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