Blog Calhoun and Constitutionalism Union and liberty are not two terms most people associate with John C. Calhoun, a…John GroveApril 20, 2020
Blog Vale Res Publica Once again, it is politicking time in the good ol’ US of A. The Democrats,…John DevannyMarch 24, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library The Jeffersonian Democrat Rediscovered A Review of A Plague on Both Your Houses, by Robert W. Whitaker. New York:…Clyde WilsonDecember 16, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Virginia Roots of American Values "There is Jackson standing like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians." — Barnard Elliott…Clyde WilsonDecember 9, 2015
Blog What Was the Confederacy After All? This article was originally published at lewrockwell.com. In all the recent fuss over symbols of…Kirkpatrick SaleDecember 7, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Can the Republic Be Restored: Presidency The American President began as Cincinnatus, a patriot called to the temporary service of his…Clyde WilsonDecember 2, 2015
Review Posts The Same Old Stand? This essay was published in Why the South Will Survive: Fifteen Southerners Look at Their…John Shelton ReedDecember 1, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Thomas Jefferson, Southern Man of Letters, Part II Several generations after his lifetime Jefferson became best known, as he still is, of course,…Clyde WilsonNovember 11, 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 A Jeffersonian Political Economy Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics,…Clyde WilsonJuly 29, 2015
Blog Franklin Pierce: Reviled Jeffersonian Sometimes opponents of nullification base their opposition on the claim that Jefferson and Madison’s blueprint…Dave BennerJuly 23, 2015
Review Posts The Danger to Governments, Founded on Written Constitutions, of Being Gradually Revolutionized by the Construction Placed on the Provisions of the Constitution by Those Who Administer the Governments This may be done by enlarging and extending the powers conferred by a liberal construction,…Oran Milo RobertsJuly 14, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library What This Country Needs In one of Henry James’s less unreadable novels, The Bostonians, the hero is Basil Ransom,…Clyde WilsonJuly 8, 2015
Blog The Flag Controversy: We Did It To Ourselves Who looks at Lee must think of Washington; In pain must think, and hide the…John DevannyJune 26, 2015
Review Posts Randolph of Roanoke This piece was originally printed in Southern Partisan magazine in 1986. Some miles beyond Charlotte…Russell KirkJune 2, 2015
Blog The Prophetic Sage of Roanoke There is no more singular statesman or person in the history of American politics than…John DevannyJune 2, 2015
Blog The Meaning of Name and Place An address delivered on August 10, 1950, before the annual reunion of the Weaver family.…Richard M. WeaverApril 27, 2015
Blog We Are All Jeffersonians Thomas Jefferson is perhaps the greatest enigma of the American age. He wrote and spoke…Brion McClanahanApril 13, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Scratching Fleas: American Historians and Their History There is no group I would rather receive recognition from than the John Randolph Club.…Clyde WilsonMarch 11, 2015
Blog How ‘bout a Little Bourbon with Your Philosophy? What exactly makes the South, the South? Hosts of scholars have puzzled mightily over this…John DevannyFebruary 26, 2015
Blog Luther Martin Revisited As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and as an eminent lawyer and statesman, Martin…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.February 20, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library Cincinnatus, Call the Office! “. . . a republican government, which many great writers assert to be incapable of…Clyde WilsonDecember 31, 2014
Blog The Political Wisdom of John Taylor of Caroline In honor of John Taylor's birthday, December 19. From Tyranny Unmasked: “The rival remedy for our…W. Kirk WoodDecember 19, 2014
Review Posts John Taylor and Construction States’ rights may have been the defining force in Antebellum America, but modern, mainstream historians…James Rutledge RoeschDecember 19, 2014
Blog Nathaniel Macon and the Origin of States’ Rights Conservatism This essay was first published at Unz Review on November 23, 2014. Back in 1975…Boyd CatheyDecember 17, 2014
Review Posts John Taylor of Caroline: Liberal, Radical, and Reactionary Part V of a Five Part Series. Part I, II, III, and IV. 1. Taylor…Joseph R. StrombergDecember 10, 2014
Blog Republicanism and Liberty: The “Patrick Henry”/”Onslow” Debate The fiercely contested, yet inconclusive election of 1824 set the stage for one of the…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.December 5, 2014
Blog The Underlying Realities of Obama’s Amnesty Focusing on the cultural, political and economic long-term consequences of President Obama’s amnesty executive action…Marshall DeRosaNovember 24, 2014
Blog Sayings By or For Southerners, Part VIII It is the very genius of a consolidated Government to elevate one portion of the…Clyde WilsonNovember 21, 2014
Review Posts John Taylor on War, Peace, and Imperial War Finance Part IV of a Five Part Series. Part I, Part II, Part III 1. War…Joseph R. StrombergNovember 17, 2014
Review Posts The Political Economy of John Taylor of Caroline Part III of a Five Part Series. Part I, Part II. 1. Republicanism and Liberalism…Joseph R. StrombergNovember 6, 2014
Review Posts John Taylor on Federal and Constitutional Questions Part II of a Five Part Series. Part I 1. Liberalism Taylor stood on liberal…Joseph R. StrombergOctober 14, 2014
Blog Where Mason Left Us This essay is in honor of George Mason's death, October 7, 1792. He wrote the…Vito MussomeliOctober 13, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Small Is Beautiful When I first heard of the topic "Small is Beautiful," I thought of the wonderful…Clyde WilsonOctober 2, 2014
Clyde Wilson Library Please Tread On Me “Sic Semper Tyrannis.” — from the Great Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia “I want…Clyde WilsonOctober 1, 2014
Review Posts James Jackson: Forgotten Founding Father This essay appears in Clyde Wilson and Brion McClanahan, Forgotten Conservatives in American History and…Clyde WilsonSeptember 22, 2014
Review Posts A National or Federal Government Part IV of a four part series. Part I, Part II, Part III. I come…Spencer RoaneSeptember 15, 2014
Review Posts John Taylor: Republicanism, Liberty, and Union Part 1 of a Five Part Series 1. The Relevance of John Taylor John Taylor…Joseph R. StrombergSeptember 12, 2014
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
Blog The Dix Note and Southern Freedom While cleaning my study the other day I ran across my copy of a $10.00…James Ronald KennedyAugust 18, 2014
Blog The Real Constitution The real U.S. Constitution, which was scrapped long ago, does not permit judges to be…Clyde WilsonAugust 7, 2014
Review Posts David Hume, Republicanism, and the Human Scale of Political Order Aristotle taught that "To the size of states there is a limit, as there is…Donald LivingstonJuly 22, 2014
Blog Musings on Dislocation Dislocation brings with it a multiplicity of dissonance. Moving disrupts the consonance of time and…John DevannyJuly 17, 2014
Media Posts The Market, The State, and Human Salvation Dr. Donald Livingston discusses the proper size and scale of government at the Lindenwood University…Donald LivingstonJune 9, 2014
Review Posts Caveat, America, Emptor Probably no man in America in 1800 knew more about, or cared more passionately for,…Kirkpatrick SaleMay 27, 2014
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