We live in a regime with an industrial output of lies about Southern history, so…
Clyde WilsonJune 17, 2022
The best of the many Confederate memoirs, in my opinion, are those of General Richard…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2022
A review of Arm in Arm (Mercer, 2022) by Catharine Savage Brosman Our conscious civilisation…
Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2022
William Gilmore Simms, Part 2 The Green Corn Dance Come hither, hither, old and young--the…
Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2022
Part 6 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonApril 11, 2022
Part 5 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonApril 5, 2022
Part 4 in Clyde Wilson’s series “African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective.” Read Part 1, Part…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2022
Part 3 in Clyde Wilson's series "African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective." Read Part 1 and…
Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2022
Part 2 in Clyde Wilson's series, African-American Slavery in Historical Perspective. Part 1 can…
Clyde WilsonMarch 15, 2022
Our culture’s indifference to the past---which easily shades over into hostility and rejection---furnishes the most…
Clyde WilsonMarch 10, 2022
The Adventures and Recollections of General Walter P. Lane, A San Jacinto Veteran (1887) John…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 22, 2022
A Series by Clyde Wilson. WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS (1806-1870) of South Carolina, amazingly prolific novelist,…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 10, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson HENRY ROOTES JACKSON (1820—1898) of Georgia was a lawyer, judge…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2022
By Forrest McDonald and Clyde Wilson. These essays were originally published in the Fall 1982…
Abbeville InstituteFebruary 3, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson Thomas Holley Chivers (1809—1858) of Georgia was a physician and…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 28, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson. LOUISA SUSANNAH CHEVES McCORD (1810—1879) of South Carolina was one…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 21, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson Alexander Beaufort Meek, Part 2 The Rose of Alabama I…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 14, 2022
A series by Clyde Wilson ALEXANDER BEAUFORT MEEK (1814-1865) of Alabama. Meek was one of…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 7, 2022
In August, Thomas Moore, novelist and founding Chairman of the Southern National Congress, passed away…
Clyde WilsonNovember 1, 2021
A review of Rebirthing Lincoln, A Biography (Southern Books, 2021) by Howard Ray White I…
Clyde WilsonJune 15, 2021
Daybreak in Dixie: Poems of the Confederacy by Linda Lee. Privately published, 2019. For those…
Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2021
Any fool can write history, and many do. Please do not assume that I mean…
Clyde WilsonMarch 29, 2021
“The Burning of Atlanta,” 82 minutes. Produced and directed by Christopher Forbes. 2020. I have written…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 26, 2021
(Mrs. Holley was the third generation of a Southern family in California. She wrote this…
Ruth Ann HolleyFebruary 2, 2021
According to a recent poll, 72 per cent of Americans think that we are now…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2021
The South Was Right! by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy. New Edition for the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 24, 2020
The pattern for modern American politics was set by Lincoln and his cronies in the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2020
It is not often enough, but I do set aside blocks of time to express…
Joshua DoggrellNovember 12, 2020
A review of Cleburne: A Graphic Novel (Rampart Press, 2008) by Justin S. Murphy and…
Clyde WilsonAugust 25, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR (1798-1859) of Texas moved from his native…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2020
A Series by Clyde Wilson THEODORE O'HARA (1820-1867) of Kentucky. "The Bivouac of the Dead"…
Clyde WilsonAugust 6, 2020
A Series by Clyde Wilson EDGAR ALLAN POE, Part 2 Sonnet – To Science Science!…
Clyde WilsonJuly 30, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809--1849) of Virginia was the great creative…
Clyde WilsonJuly 2, 2020
“Southerners who still value their heritage but don’t know what to do about it in…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson EDWARD COOTE PINKNEY (1802-1828) of Maryland was born and partly…
Clyde WilsonJune 11, 2020
I first met Dr. Clyde Wilson in February 2018 at an Abbeville Institute conference in…
Dissident MamaJune 1, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson RICHARD HENRY WILDE (1789--1847) of Georgia gave up a successful…
Clyde WilsonMay 28, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson WASHINGTON ALLSTON (1779--1843) of South Carolina was one of the…
Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson FRANCIS SCOTT KEY (1779-1843) of Maryland. The story is well…
Clyde WilsonMay 14, 2020
A series by Clyde Wilson Homage to Revolutionary Heroes DOLLEY PAYNE MADISON (1768—1849) was the…
Clyde WilsonMay 7, 2020
A Series by Clyde Wilson UNKNOWN WRITER, 1781 The Battle of King’s Mountain 'T was…
Clyde WilsonApril 30, 2020
EBENEZER COOKE (fl. ca. l 680s--1730s?) of Maryland is a major figure in Colonial American…
Clyde WilsonApril 23, 2020
JOHN COTTON (fl. 1660s – 1720s) was an early settler of Virginia, never to be…
Clyde WilsonApril 16, 2020
A Series By Clyde Wilson If the South would’ve won, we’d’ve had it made." --Hank…
Clyde WilsonApril 9, 2020
21. Faulkner in Film Southern viewers must naturally be interested in what Hollywood has done…
Clyde WilsonMarch 26, 2020
19. Our Speech The experts will tell you that there is more than one Southern…
Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2020
18. World War II and Other Wars “To deliver examples to posterity, and to regulate…
Clyde WilsonMarch 12, 2020
16. EXECRABLES. The Worst Movies about the South: A Small Selection The competition here is…
Clyde WilsonMarch 5, 2020
15. Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Southerners: Films for the Family The major movie stars of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 27, 2020
12. Southerners in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries **The Yearling (1946). This is…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 20, 2020
A review of How to Study History When Seeking Truthfulness and Understanding: Lessons Learned from Outside…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2020
11. Post-bellum and Westerns There are two interesting, important, and little noticed features of films…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2020
10. Spielberg’s Lincoln (X) Spielberg’s Lincoln. Life is short. Although I am a devoted if…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 7, 2020
9. Confederate Hollywood From the beginnings to rather recent times portrayals of Confederates have been…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2020
8. The War for Southern Independence (continued): Fantasy and Fraud Scorcese’s Gangs of New York…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2020
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 9, 2020
5. Spielberg’s Amistad (1997) If Amistad is not yet a household word like ET or…
Clyde WilsonDecember 19, 2019
Symbols Used ** Indicates one of the more than 100 most recommended films. The order…
Clyde WilsonDecember 12, 2019
Those of us whose experience goes back a way into the last century, can remember…
Clyde WilsonOctober 7, 2019
I recently read a report of a professor who declared that he had come sadly…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2019
A review of The C.S.A. Trilogy (Independent, 2018) by Howard Ray White. A beautiful thought…
Clyde WilsonAugust 27, 2019
A review of Punished with Poverty: The Suffering South-Prosperity to Poverty & the Continuing Struggle…
Clyde WilsonAugust 13, 2019
J. William Fulbright, The Arrogance of Power, 1966 and The Price of Empire, 1967 Robert…
Clyde WilsonJuly 30, 2019
A review of Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide, (U. Press of Mississippi, 2019) by Catharine…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2019
A Review of Doniphan’s Expedition, Containing an Account of the Conquest of New Mexico .…
Clyde WilsonMay 21, 2019
A review of A Defender of Southern Conservatism: M.E. Bradford and His Achievements (Missouri, 1999)…
J.O. TateMay 6, 2019
A Review of Historical Consciousness, or The Remembered Past (Schocken Books, 1985) by John Lukacs In…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 12, 2019
The dominant powers in American discourse today have succeeded in confining the South to a…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 23, 2019
The presidential election of 2016 gave promise to be a watershed in American politics. Donald…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2019
A review of Division and Reunion: America, 1848-1877, by Ludwell H. Johnson, New York: John…
Clyde WilsonMay 29, 2018
I recently traveled to Texas to speak about South Africa, at the Free Speech Forum…
Ilana MercerMay 21, 2018
After reading Richard Weaver’s monumental work Ideas Have Consequences last semester I was struck with…
Jonathan HarrisMay 18, 2018
Eminent historian Dr. Clyde Wilson in one of his many books on American history expresses…
Jonathan HarrisApril 11, 2018
A bit of free verse to address our current situation, which is probably not as…
Clyde WilsonDecember 15, 2017
There is a popular theme embraced by many that the uniqueness of Southern culture is…
Clyde WilsonNovember 13, 2017
From the beginnings to rather recent times, sympathetic portrayals of Confederates have been a mainstay…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 27, 2017
A review of How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America by Brion McClanahan, Regnery History, 2017.…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 19, 2017
The current pogrom against Southern history and symbols ignores the influence the South and the…
Clyde WilsonAugust 30, 2017
A review of Nullification: Reclaiming the Consent of the Governed by Clyde Wilson, Shotwell Press,…
Christopher McDonaldAugust 22, 2017
Most of the world knows of the Hollywood Celebrity “Martin Sheen,” (born and baptized Ramon…
Clyde WilsonAugust 14, 2017
A review of Clyde Wilson, The Yankee Problem: An American Dilemma (Shotwell Press, 2016). The…
Charles SteinerAugust 1, 2017
Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. You are deplorable. It is worse than…
Clyde WilsonJuly 24, 2017
Foreword for A Rebel Born: A Defense of Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General, American Legend,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2017
Anyone who has been paying attention has heard many times the assertion that the flag…
Clyde WilsonJune 14, 2017
A review of Music from the Lake and Other Essays by Catharine Savage Brosman (Chronicles…
Clyde WilsonJune 7, 2017
Statement about the “slavery the sole cause of the war” plaque affixed to the Confederate…
Clyde WilsonMay 31, 2017
A Review of M.E. Bradford, A Better Guide Than Reason: Studies in the American Revolution.…
Clyde WilsonMay 17, 2017
As the slow process of excavating the marvel continues, more and more revelations are coming…
Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2017
A Review of The Imperial Presidency, by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,…
Clyde WilsonApril 26, 2017
A review of All Clever Men, Who Make Their Own Way: Critical Discourse in the…
Clyde WilsonApril 19, 2017
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. — THOMAS JEFFERSON…
Clyde WilsonApril 12, 2017
Order of the Southern Cross Banquet, Sons of Confederate Veterans National Reunion, Asheville, North Carolina,…
Clyde WilsonMarch 22, 2017
Want to learn about one of the greatest statesmen that the United States has ever…
Clyde WilsonMarch 17, 2017
Like it or not, movies are the main art form of our time, the story-telling…
Clyde WilsonMarch 6, 2017
The Fiction of Mr. Simms gave indication, we repeat, of genius, and that of no…
Clyde WilsonMarch 2, 2017
The great body of the nation has no real interest in party. — James Fenimore…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 23, 2017
Of the four Christmas cards I received from the UK this past December, three of…
Joscelyn DunlopFebruary 21, 2017
In 1864, General William T. Sherman wrote to a fellow Union officer that the “false…
Karen StokesFebruary 17, 2017
I am always glad to talk about my favourite subject–-John C. Calhoun. I think it…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 8, 2017
It seems that out in California an impressively large number of people are petitioning for…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 30, 2017
A review of Understanding Mary Lee Settle, by George Garrett, Columbia: University of South Carolina…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 25, 2017
Every historian has a viewpoint, shaped by his own background, values, and perception of the…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 18, 2017
How much better off the American people would be if they could learn the difference…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 11, 2017
An article by a Canadian historian in a recent issue of the North Carolina…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 4, 2017
Dr. Clyde Wilson on "American Culture: Virginia or Massachusetts?" at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer…
Clyde WilsonDecember 28, 2016
—there was no television; and then when there was one station on two hours a…
Clyde WilsonDecember 20, 2016
A review of Crimson Confederates: Harvard Men Who Fought for the South, By Helen P.…
Clyde WilsonDecember 14, 2016
The terms “liberal” and “conservative” were usable signs in a society in which the state…
Clyde WilsonDecember 8, 2016
Editor's note: With the rise of "populism" around the world, we should revisit the history…
Clyde WilsonNovember 16, 2016
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…
Clyde WilsonNovember 9, 2016
Martin Scorcese, in an interview, candidly described his new film, "Gangs of New York," as…
Clyde WilsonNovember 2, 2016
A few of us now decrepit pre-Reagan “conservatives” can remember the brief flicker of hope…
Clyde WilsonOctober 26, 2016
An American president can wreck his country and blow up the world, but he cannot…
Clyde WilsonOctober 19, 2016
Chronicle’s most distinguished contributing editor, can be relied upon, always, to tell it like it…
Clyde WilsonOctober 12, 2016
William Faulkner of Mississippi was the greatest writer produced by the United States in the…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 28, 2016
The mission of the Abbeville Institute, to redeem what is worthwhile in the Southern tradition,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2016
(13th Annual Gettysburg Banquet of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp, SCV, Philadelphia) ****How Should 21st Century…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 14, 2016
Call me simple... But I don’t understand: Why the government spends billions on welfare but…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 7, 2016
Twenty-three Republican Senators joined a large majority of Democrats to vote for the Bush bill…
Clyde WilsonAugust 31, 2016
World War II has provided a vast amount of material for cinema in Europe, America,…
Clyde WilsonAugust 24, 2016
The Homeland Security apparatus has garnered quite a bit of attention lately for a paper…
Clyde WilsonAugust 17, 2016
General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of…
Clyde WilsonAugust 10, 2016
Delivered at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. A Frenchman has observed that the qualities…
Clyde WilsonAugust 3, 2016
Perceptive and insightful people have known through the centuries that William Shakespeare could not possibly…
Clyde WilsonJuly 27, 2016
Transcend yourself and join in the universal struggle to bring about the self-transcendence of all…
Clyde WilsonJuly 14, 2016
A Review of The American Counter Revolution: A Retreat From Liberty, 1783-1800, by Larry E.…
Clyde WilsonJuly 4, 2016
In fact, capitalists have no objection to federal meddling. They just want it to be…
Clyde WilsonJune 22, 2016
A Review of The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800, by Conor…
Clyde WilsonJune 15, 2016
These Haters seem to want to destroy anything and anyone they can tie to slavery.…
Clyde WilsonJune 8, 2016
A pioneer creates a new country from foresight, courage, and hard work. An immigrant takes…
Clyde WilsonJune 1, 2016
I believe that the American South, the last bastion of Christianity in the West, will…
Clyde WilsonMay 18, 2016
This piece was originally published in Chronicles Magazine, October 2012. “O Fame, O Fame! Many…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2016
Southerners who honour their Confederate forebears have often been admonished: “Get over it. You lost!” …
Clyde WilsonMay 4, 2016
Moving from arrogance to masochism, Europeans have endeavoured to chase away their old feelings of…
Clyde WilsonApril 27, 2016
A new contribution to Southern literature from one or both of the Kennedy brothers, authors…
Clyde WilsonApril 20, 2016
The Western intellectual knows, or rather thinks he knows, what others do not. He rarely…
Clyde WilsonApril 6, 2016
In a PC world, humor is a capital offense. --Taki Happiness is never an accident. …
Clyde WilsonMarch 30, 2016
Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist logrolling. --John…
Clyde WilsonMarch 23, 2016
John C. Culhoon. Culhoon is the right pronunciation by the way. John C. Culhoon was…
Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2016
“My name’s Anderson. They call me Bloody Bill. Going to Kansas to kill Red Legs.…
Clyde WilsonMarch 16, 2016
Conventional wisdom of the moment tells us that the great war of 1861—1865 was “about”…
Clyde WilsonMarch 9, 2016
This talk was delivered on Friday, February 26, 2016 at the Abbeville Institute Conference "The…
Clyde WilsonMarch 2, 2016
A friend’s encounter with a clergyman: His mission, he says, is Social Justice. Our South…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 24, 2016
Professor Thomas DiLorenzo’s The Real Lincoln has provoked the utterly predictable torrent of abuse from…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 17, 2016
The death of the spirit is the price of progress. --Eric Voegelin The Athenians know what…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 10, 2016
I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 3, 2016
Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 27, 2016
"And the cause of all these things was power pursued for the gratification of avarice….."…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 20, 2016
Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 13, 2016
A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan,…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 6, 2016
Sean Hannity begins his nationally syndicated radio talk show by welcoming listeners to “the revolution.” …
Brion McClanahanJanuary 1, 2016
Introduction This is James Johnston Pettigrew’s only book, privately printed in Charleston in the first…
Clyde WilsonDecember 30, 2015
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with an average voter -- Winston…
Clyde WilsonDecember 23, 2015
A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York:…
Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2015
"There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians." — Barnard Elliott…
Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2015
The American President began as Cincinnatus, a patriot called to the temporary service of his…
Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2015
This essay was published in Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their…
John Shelton ReedDecember 1, 2015
The further a society strays from the truth, the more it hates people who tell…
Clyde WilsonNovember 25, 2015
Statement of College and University Professors in Support of the Confederate Battle Flag Atop the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 18, 2015
The main problem with America today is the increasing scarcity of Americans. --Clyde Wilson The…
Clyde WilsonNovember 13, 2015
Several generations after his lifetime Jefferson became best known, as he still is, of course,…
Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2015
There was a popular ragtime song in the 1940s and ‘50s, derived from an old…
Clyde WilsonNovember 4, 2015
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he…
Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2015
Introduction to Chronicles of the South: In Justice to So Fine a Country “The South”…
Clyde WilsonOctober 21, 2015
Declining prosperity is now a settled fact of American life. Prosperity is not measured by…
Clyde WilsonOctober 14, 2015
Thanks for the “Amateurs” “Amateur” has come to mean “inferior” to most people today. But…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 30, 2015
Wherever you bluebellies go you cause trouble. . . . Yankees always lie. --Clint Eastwood,…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 23, 2015
A friend who sells high-end real estate tells the story of a well-heeled Northern couple…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 9, 2015
In the antebellum era, Matthew Carey, Philadelphia publisher and journalist, was the most zealous and…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 1, 2015
“. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They…
Clyde WilsonAugust 26, 2015
In 1866 Margaret Junkin Preston of Lexington, Virginia, a sister-in-law of Stonewall Jackson, wrote a…
Clyde WilsonAugust 19, 2015
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals can believe them. --Orwell I believe you…
Clyde WilsonAugust 5, 2015
Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
The Confederate battle flag is protean. It is a powerful symbol that has entered the…
Clyde WilsonJuly 20, 2015
Why in the recent “The Factory” does a serial killer from Buffalo, New York, have…
Clyde WilsonJuly 13, 2015
In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending,…
Clyde WilsonJuly 1, 2015
The Report from Dogwood Mudhole Franklin Sanders is a well-known Southern leader and spokesman. In…
Clyde WilsonJune 25, 2015
This piece was originally published on 3 July 2014 and is reprinted in light of…
Clyde WilsonJune 24, 2015
“The Father of Waters now flows unvexed to the sea,” Lincoln famously announced in July…
Clyde WilsonJune 16, 2015
St. George Tucker's "View of the Constitution of the United States" was the first…
Clyde WilsonJune 8, 2015
A friend of mine, a scholar of international reputation and a Tar Heel by birth,…
Clyde WilsonJune 4, 2015
I want to look at Southerners going back to Europe long after the roots were…
Clyde WilsonMay 20, 2015
It seems my mission here is to bring to your attention unfamiliar and unfashionable truths…
Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2015
Maryland Redeemed Everybody knows that our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written by Francis…
Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2015
When our ever-wise leader set up a program on the American West, he obviously had…
Clyde WilsonMay 6, 2015
The top ten for April 2015. Thank you for a great one year anniversary for…
Brion McClanahanMay 2, 2015
This essay served as the introduction to Why the South Will Survive(University of Georgia Press,…
Clyde WilsonApril 29, 2015
Abbeville scholar Clyde Wilson recently received this charming from Ms. Joscelyn Dunlop of Edenton, North…
Clyde WilsonApril 24, 2015
Karen Stokes’s Reconstruction Novel Awhile back it was theorised by some that Southern literature’s era…
Clyde WilsonApril 22, 2015
In 1809 Thomas Jefferson yielded up the Presidency and crossed into Virginia. In the 17…
Clyde WilsonApril 15, 2015
What to say in brief compass about the South?—a subject that is worthy of the…
Clyde WilsonApril 8, 2015
They call it progress, but they don’t say where it is going. --Faulkner Nothing occurs…
Clyde WilsonApril 3, 2015
In talking about the Southern political tradition, it is most appropriate to point to the…
Clyde WilsonApril 1, 2015
There seemed to be little interest among audience members in whether the ideas I had…
Clyde WilsonMarch 25, 2015
"When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who…
Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 2015
This selection was originally printed in Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson, Forgotten Conservatives in American…
Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2015
Your ordinary run-of-the mill historian will tell you that John C. Calhoun, having defended the…
Clyde WilsonMarch 16, 2015
There is no group I would rather receive recognition from than the John Randolph Club.…
Clyde WilsonMarch 11, 2015
I have seen enough of publick men to come to the conclusion, that there are…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 25, 2015
The History Channel’s recent presentation of "Sherman’s March" has been rightly drawing a lot of…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 18, 2015
Review of the new film Field of Lost Shoes: I have written before here and…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 13, 2015
The American Enterprise magazine, a slick-paper, coffee-table arm of the neocon publishing empire, has recognized…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 11, 2015
I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
John Chodes, Destroying the Republic: Jabez Curry and the Re-Education of the Old South. New…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 29, 2015
I am honoured to be back in my native State (North Carolina) where the weak…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 19, 2015
South Carolina will preserve its sovereignty, or be buried beneath its ruins. --Governor Robert Y.…
Clyde WilsonJanuary 8, 2015
Experience has taught me, that in politicks, it is much more easy to gain the…
Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
“. . . a republican government, which many great writers assert to be incapable of…
Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
It has been a rule with me, from which I have rarely departed, to pass…
Clyde WilsonDecember 26, 2014
What are people for? --Wendell Berry I do not view politicks as a scramble…
Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2014
If we want to understand the origins and nature of Southern culture we must consider…
Clyde WilsonDecember 11, 2014
A review of Henry Timrod: A Biography by Walter Brian Cisco, Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh…
Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2014
In an ideal world the separate studies of history and literature would enlighten one another.…
Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2014
It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty.…
Clyde WilsonDecember 1, 2014
It is the very genius of a consolidated Government to elevate one portion of the…
Clyde WilsonNovember 21, 2014
"To parties of special interests, all political questions appear exclusively as problems of political tactics."…
Clyde WilsonNovember 19, 2014
"Your enemy is not a criminal just because he is your enemy." —Saying credited to…
Clyde WilsonNovember 17, 2014
In the early days of the United States, Founding Father Alexander Hamilton remarked: "The safety…
Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yKesnaFYUw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkcQ09h2Vo That is Bobby Bare on Detroit and Dwight Yoakam on Los Angeles. Sometimes…
Clyde WilsonNovember 10, 2014
The Constitutional power of the President never was or could be formidable, unless it was…
Clyde WilsonNovember 5, 2014
The final part in this installment is a lecture entitled, "Reconstruction in the Experience of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 30, 2014
When did the South ever lay its hand on the North? --Calhoun The body of…
Clyde WilsonOctober 28, 2014
I never claimed a victory, though I stated that Lee was defeated in his efforts…
Clyde WilsonOctober 16, 2014
Reality is what continues to exist whether you believe in it or not. --Philip K.…
Clyde WilsonOctober 6, 2014
These 40 questions have been carefully designed to test your qualifications as a citizen. The…
Clyde WilsonOctober 3, 2014
When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…
Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
“Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…
Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
In honor of William Faulkner's birthday (Sept 25), Clyde Wilson discusses Faulkner as a conservative.…
Clyde WilsonSeptember 25, 2014
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