As is my custom, each year for the Federal holiday celebrating Martin Luther King (whose…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 17, 2022
The Thanksgiving holiday always puts me in mind of the history of this country from…
Boyd CatheyNovember 29, 2021
I was chairman of the Annual Confederate Flag Day at the North Carolina State…
Boyd CatheyNovember 12, 2021
Dr. Paul Gottfried's speech at the annual Confederate Flag Day commemoration in the historic 1840…
Boyd CatheyNovember 5, 2021
Over the past several years I have been writing essays for several publications and…
Boyd CatheyOctober 18, 2021
The latest major study issued by a blue-ribbon commission on racism infecting American culture comes…
Boyd CatheyOctober 5, 2021
I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised. After all it was completely logical, the inevitable…
Boyd CatheySeptember 29, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Growing up in mostly-rural North Carolina, most of my friends and especially their parents could…
Boyd CatheyAugust 16, 2021
I have a good friend who continually asks me what I think are the prospects…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2021
Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…
Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
July 4, “Independence Day,” has become for most Americans little more than another holiday, a…
Boyd CatheyJuly 5, 2021
In past columns I have written about some classic films, some of which have been…
Boyd CatheyJune 30, 2021
Sometimes readers will ask me: “Why did you write on that? What were you trying to…
Boyd CatheyJune 17, 2021
The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
Seventy-six years ago, on May 8, 1945, at 2301 hours, Central European Time, World War…
Boyd CatheyMay 25, 2021
Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…
Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost…
Boyd CatheyApril 19, 2021
For some time now I have had a passion for classic films, in particular those…
Boyd CatheyMarch 17, 2021
During the past couple of months, from shortly after the presidential election until now, seven…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 4, 2021
It happened on Saturday morning, November 14, 2020, at around 8:15 EST. I had switched…
Boyd CatheyNovember 18, 2020
As of Friday, November 6, the votes are still being counted in at least six…
Boyd CatheyNovember 9, 2020
Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2020
Sampson County is a large, mostly rural county in southeastern North Carolina. Like most non-metropolitan…
Boyd CatheySeptember 30, 2020
These violent times in which we live are in some ways unparalleled. For Southerners we…
Boyd CatheySeptember 10, 2020
Photo by Martin Fried I have written previously about the very real dangers of what…
Boyd CatheyAugust 24, 2020
Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina comes across as a nice man, well-mannered, calm, the…
Boyd CatheyJune 25, 2020
Increasingly, I try to avoid news-binging, watching assiduously all the compiled, feculent bilge that passes…
Boyd CatheyJune 2, 2020
On various occasions I’ve made references to Chronicles Magazine and cited articles printed in it. Remarkably, Chronicles is the only print…
Boyd CatheyApril 22, 2020
Thoughtful Southerners of a conservative and traditional bent have known since the 1980s that the…
Boyd CatheyApril 2, 2020
All across the Southland today efforts have been mounted by “woke” social justice warriors—in most…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 3, 2020
As 2020 commences it is perhaps appropriate that we take stock—that we take a look…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 13, 2020
Early this past summer the historic Steele Creek Presbyterian Church, near the city of Charlotte,…
Boyd CatheyDecember 2, 2019
Many present-day Southerners—indeed, many of those Americans who call themselves “conservatives”—find it difficult to envisage…
Boyd CatheyNovember 14, 2019
In our turbulent times it is increasingly evident that our government is disconnected to the…
Boyd CatheyOctober 28, 2019
Every now and then an acquaintance who reads what I write will ask me: “Boyd,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 4, 2019
From late 1983 until its fitful demise in the early 2000s, I served as a…
Boyd CatheySeptember 18, 2019
Southerners, of all Americans, have been the most acute and the most persistent in their…
Boyd CatheySeptember 9, 2019
In a recent column, “Nationalism vs. Secession: Should America Break Up? (July 27), I included…
Boyd CatheyAugust 19, 2019
There is a question that increasingly arises, uncomfortably, in our conversations…from brief exchanges at work…
Boyd CatheyAugust 2, 2019
Most of us, even the youngest, have heard of the magnificent Disney film, “Song of…
Boyd CatheyJuly 25, 2019
Over the years I have known a few—very few—politicians whom I have admired greatly. It…
Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2019
A week ago Sunday—Easter Sunday, April 21—Aaron D. Wolf, Executive Editor of Chronicles Magazine, passed…
Boyd CatheyMay 1, 2019
Most every Thursday I gather with a group of friends for lunch at some restaurant…
Boyd CatheyApril 1, 2019
For thirty-one years the North Carolina Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans has sponsored…
Boyd CatheyMarch 11, 2019
Given what is occurring in our society and culture, the ever increasing frenzy and hysteria…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 13, 2019
Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 4, 2019
The news came Thursday, November 15, that country music legend, Virginia-born Roy Clark had passed…
Boyd CatheyNovember 28, 2018
Despite the establishment attempts to throttle free speech—most recently actions taken by PayPal, by Google,…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2018
On Monday night, August 20, 2018, approximately 200 to 250 raucous demonstrators gathered in a…
Boyd CatheyAugust 23, 2018
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new “conservative” film out; it is titled…
Boyd CatheyAugust 6, 2018
Were Robert E. Lee and the Confederates “traitors” who violated their oaths to the Constitution…
Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2018
After the Charleston shooting in 2015, all across the old Confederacy memorials, monuments, flags and…
Boyd CatheyMay 30, 2018
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly…
Boyd CatheyMay 2, 2018
“Conservative” writer and classicist Victor Davis Hanson hates the Confederacy and the South; he has…
Boyd CatheyApril 12, 2018
A review of R. E. Mitchell. Souls of Lions (Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse LLC, 2014). Very…
Boyd CatheyFebruary 20, 2018
The city fathers of Memphis have been engaged in police state tactics and patently illegal…
Boyd CatheyJanuary 22, 2018
You would think that David Duke had somehow been elected president. Or, maybe in this…
Boyd CatheyNovember 15, 2017
Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most lauded and applauded historians of the “conservative…
Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2017
The present feverish campaign to remove Confederate monuments and other symbols which offend certain loud…
Boyd CatheyOctober 6, 2017
At the base of most of the ongoing political debates currently raging in the United…
Boyd CatheySeptember 20, 2017
A number of years ago I became interested in the writings of the great Southern…
Boyd CatheyJuly 26, 2017
Only a few prominent Southerners actively questioned the call for the rapid industrialization of the…
Boyd CatheyJuly 14, 2017
Two weeks ago New Orleans removed its Robert E. Lee Monument, one of four that…
Boyd CatheyJune 5, 2017
Early this morning the local television station WRAL, Raleigh, NC, broadcast news that the first of…
Boyd CatheyApril 25, 2017
One-hundred and fifty-two years ago, April 9, 1865 was a Palm Sunday just as today,…
Boyd CatheyApril 13, 2017
This article was originally printed in the Nov/Dec 2015 issue of Confederate Veteran Magazine. In…
Boyd CatheyNovember 19, 2015
Back in mid-June, after the Charleston shootings, the frenzied hue and cry went up and…
Boyd CatheyAugust 4, 2015
As residents here in the Tar Heel State know, the boards of several of the state's public…
Boyd CatheyJune 18, 2015
Originally published by the Unz Review on 15 April 2015. Back in 1990 in Richmond,…
Boyd CatheyApril 17, 2015
Recent releases of four classic films should gladden the hearts of patriotic Southerners and those…
Boyd CatheyJuly 30, 2014
This past May 8 would have been the late Melvin E. Bradford's 80th birthday. That…
Boyd CatheyJuly 17, 2014
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