The history of political parties in America is as old as the United States itself…
John MarquardtJuly 13, 2022
This piece was originally published at Chronicles Magazine and is reprinted here by permission. The…
Paul GottfriedMay 2, 2022
The current conservative populist movement appears to offer some hope of mounting an effective resistance…
James (Jim) PedersonNovember 2, 2021
When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…
Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
The numerous declarations among "right-wing" websites, blogs, and print publications usually present a conundrum of…
Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 17, 2021
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…
Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
It is maddening to listen to people who attempt “conservative thought” with but a shallow…
Paul H. YarbroughJuly 21, 2021
God’s guidance and blessing began in Virginia. But Civil War is where we are today.…
Paul H. YarbroughJune 22, 2021
The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…
Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost…
Boyd CatheyApril 19, 2021
Southern conservatism is considered an enigma when juxtaposed against the bipartisan political configuration having been…
Brad PondFebruary 4, 2021
A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by…
Duncan KillenJanuary 20, 2021
A review of Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (ISI Books, 1999) edited…
Brion McClanahanMarch 3, 2020
A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…
Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
A review of How To Be a Conservative (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015), by Sir Roger Scruton.…
Nicole WilliamsJuly 2, 2019
One of the great issues of American political history is whether an authentic American conservatism…
John DevannyMay 13, 2019
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly…
Boyd CatheyMay 2, 2018
Fred Douglas Young, Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind. University of Missouri…
David MiddletonDecember 18, 2017
A number of years ago I became interested in the writings of the great Southern…
Boyd CatheyJuly 26, 2017
One-hundred and fifty-two years ago, April 9, 1865 was a Palm Sunday just as today,…
Boyd CatheyApril 13, 2017
. .the South—alone among the civilized communities of the nineteenth century—had hardihood sufficient for an…
Alan CornettMarch 9, 2017
This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…
Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
An American president can wreck his country and blow up the world, but he cannot…
Clyde WilsonOctober 19, 2016
What is true conservatism? That question, more than anything else, is the argument raging in…
Ryan WaltersOctober 18, 2016
Kurt Schlichter wrote an interesting article on Town Hall recently entitled Liberal Attempts to Silence…
Paul H. YarbroughOctober 17, 2016
The perennial champion of racial division and hatred has, unfortunately, returned to Louisiana politics. Duke’s…
James Ronald KennedyAugust 15, 2016
Old Hickory has been chopped off the front of the twenty-dollar bill. Andrew Jackson will…
James Rutledge RoeschApril 26, 2016
This piece was originally published at The American Conservative. When John William Corrington died in…
Allen MendenhallOctober 29, 2015
The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during…
Eugene GenoveseMay 5, 2015
Born in 1782 near Abbeville, South Carolina, Calhoun's educational opportunities were limited, albeit advanced by…
H. Lee Cheek, Jr.March 18, 2015
This selection was originally printed in Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson, Forgotten Conservatives in American…
Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2015
This essay was first printed in the Southern Partisan Magazine, Volume III, Number 1 (1983).…
Russell KirkMarch 17, 2015
It has been fifty-seven years since the Weaverville, North Carolina native Richard Weaver (1910-1963) published…
James Ronald KennedyFebruary 23, 2015
I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…
Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
M.E. Bradford said of Southern Conservatism that: “This conservatism is both historic and principled in…
Carl JonesDecember 12, 2014
It has become fashionable among contemporary historians to claim that the Southern identity was fabricated…
Brion McClanahanAugust 12, 2014
This article originally appeared in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (ISI Books). It is reprinted by…
M.E. BradfordJuly 21, 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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