Blog No Capitulation: A Call to Southern Conservatives This piece was originally published at Chronicles Magazine and is reprinted here by permission. The…Paul GottfriedMay 2, 2022
Blog Southern Heritage and “New Right” Populism The current conservative populist movement appears to offer some hope of mounting an effective resistance…James (Jim) PedersonNovember 2, 2021
Blog Beautiful Losers When T.S. Eliot said that there are no lost causes because there are no won…Sam FrancisOctober 13, 2021
Blog Writing History Books Without History The numerous declarations among "right-wing" websites, blogs, and print publications usually present a conundrum of…Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 17, 2021
Blog The Unwanted Southern Conservatives No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Blog Conservatism’s Dixie Roots It is maddening to listen to people who attempt “conservative thought” with but a shallow…Paul H. YarbroughJuly 21, 2021
Blog When Did We Have a Civil War, Virginia? God’s guidance and blessing began in Virginia. But Civil War is where we are today.…Paul H. YarbroughJune 22, 2021
Blog Abraham Lincoln and the Misinterpretation of American History The Federalist online magazine has a problem. It’s a condition that characterizes and infects almost…Boyd CatheyJune 9, 2021
Blog Equality is NOT America’s Founding Principle Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost…Boyd CatheyApril 19, 2021
Blog Defining Southern Conservatism Southern conservatism is considered an enigma when juxtaposed against the bipartisan political configuration having been…Brad PondFebruary 4, 2021
Review Posts Conservatism and the Southern Tradition A review of Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (All Points Books, 2018) by…Duncan KillenJanuary 20, 2021
Blog I Stand With The South As someone who came to the Southern Conservative tradition late this moment feels very strange.…Aaron GleasonJune 26, 2020
Review Posts A Mass for the Resurrection A review of Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence (ISI Books, 1999) edited…Brion McClanahanMarch 3, 2020
Blog An Environmental Right I started my political journey on what I thought to be the Left. Books like…Neil KumarMarch 2, 2020
Review Posts Real Conservatism A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
Review Posts How to Be a Conservative and the Southern Tradition A review of How To Be a Conservative (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2015), by Sir Roger Scruton.…Nicole WilliamsJuly 2, 2019
Blog John Randolph of Roanoke and the Formation of a Southern Conservatism One of the great issues of American political history is whether an authentic American conservatism…John DevannyMay 13, 2019
Blog How the Neocons Destroyed Southern Conservatism No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly…Boyd CatheyMay 2, 2018
Blog Why the South Won the Civil War Fred Douglas Young, Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind. University of Missouri…David MiddletonDecember 18, 2017
Blog Robert Lewis Dabney: A Prophet for Our Own Times A number of years ago I became interested in the writings of the great Southern…Boyd CatheyJuly 26, 2017
Blog What Was Lost 150 Years Ago One-hundred and fifty-two years ago, April 9, 1865 was a Palm Sunday just as today,…Boyd CatheyApril 13, 2017
Blog Russell Kirk’s Southern Sensibilities: A Celebration . .the South—alone among the civilized communities of the nineteenth century—had hardihood sufficient for an…Alan CornettMarch 9, 2017
Review Posts The Conversation Club of Charleston This essay was presented at the 2016 Abbeville Institute Summer School. When I was young…Karen StokesDecember 21, 2016
Blog Goodbye, George An American president can wreck his country and blow up the world, but he cannot…Clyde WilsonOctober 19, 2016
Review Posts Jeffersonian Conservatism What is true conservatism? That question, more than anything else, is the argument raging in…Ryan WaltersOctober 18, 2016
Blog It Probably Won’t End Well Kurt Schlichter wrote an interesting article on Town Hall recently entitled Liberal Attempts to Silence…Paul H. YarbroughOctober 17, 2016
Blog David Duke Does Not Represent Conservative Louisiana The perennial champion of racial division and hatred has, unfortunately, returned to Louisiana politics. Duke’s…James Ronald KennedyAugust 15, 2016
Review Posts The Cause of Jackson is the Cause of Us All Old Hickory has been chopped off the front of the twenty-dollar bill. Andrew Jackson will…James Rutledge RoeschApril 26, 2016
Blog John William Corrington and Southern Conservatism This piece was originally published at The American Conservative. When John William Corrington died in…Allen MendenhallOctober 29, 2015
Review Posts James Henley Thornwell and Southern Religion The God-fearing, Bible-reading, hymn-singing Confederate army grew out of a Southern soil well cultivated during…Eugene GenoveseMay 5, 2015
Blog “The Last Roman”: John Caldwell Calhoun Born in 1782 near Abbeville, South Carolina, Calhoun's educational opportunities were limited, albeit advanced by…H. Lee Cheek, Jr.March 18, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library “A Senator of Rome when Rome Survived.” This selection was originally printed in Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson, Forgotten Conservatives in American…Clyde WilsonMarch 18, 2015
Review Posts John C. Calhoun Vindicated This essay was first printed in the Southern Partisan Magazine, Volume III, Number 1 (1983).…Russell KirkMarch 17, 2015
Blog Up From Liberalism—Fifty-Seven Years Later It has been fifty-seven years since the Weaverville, North Carolina native Richard Weaver (1910-1963) published…James Ronald KennedyFebruary 23, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library M. E. Bradford, The Agrarian Aquinas I have called M.E. Bradford the Agrarian Aquinas. He did not write a Summa, but…Clyde WilsonFebruary 4, 2015
Blog The Revival of (Southern) Conservatism M.E. Bradford said of Southern Conservatism that: “This conservatism is both historic and principled in…Carl JonesDecember 12, 2014
Blog The Oldest South It has become fashionable among contemporary historians to claim that the Southern identity was fabricated…Brion McClanahanAugust 12, 2014
Review Posts Southern Conservatism This article originally appeared in American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia (ISI Books). It is reprinted by…M.E. BradfordJuly 21, 2014
Blog Mel Bradford and the Defense of Southern Conservatism This past May 8 would have been the late Melvin E. Bradford's 80th birthday. That…Boyd CatheyJuly 17, 2014
Recent Comments