Blog “What right have we to be generous with the money of our constituencies to help a foreign people?” Delivered by Oscar Underwood of Alabama in the House of Representatives May, 1902. Mr. UNDERWOOD.…Oscar UnderwoodMay 5, 2022
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 A Red Wave? So What? There is a vast political swell among some ill-informed conservatives that the great mid-term elections…Paul H. YarbroughApril 18, 2022
Blog Grover Cleveland and the South, Part I From Ryan Walters, Grover Cleveland: The Last Jeffersonian President (Abbeville Institute Press, 2021). “Equal and…Ryan WaltersJanuary 26, 2022
Blog Democracy and Universal Suffrage Edmund Ruffin, from his Diary: hen the mob bears the sway in elections, it knows…Abbeville InstituteJanuary 13, 2022
Blog Southern Patriotism and Foreign Military Interventions Is it un-patriotic for Southerners to question American military intervention? This is a perplexing question…James Ronald KennedyDecember 29, 2021
Blog An Able Address Against Conscription Editor's Note: This speech was delivered in 1917 and was published in the September issue…H.W. JohnstonNovember 19, 2021
Blog The Arrogance of Power The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the…J. William FulbrightNovember 18, 2021
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 A Sham of Free Government Editor's Note: United States Senator Thomas F. Bayard delivered this speech in January, 1875…Thomas F. BayardOctober 29, 2021
Blog Remembering John C. Calhoun Though John C. Calhoun was a distinguished American statesman and thinker, he is little appreciated…John DevannyOctober 26, 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 The Unwanted Southern Conservatives No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed…Boyd CatheySeptember 7, 2021
Blog How Southerners Committed Cultural and Political Suicide Many Southerners are familiar with James “Ron” Kennedy and his brother, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy, who…Boyd CatheyJuly 19, 2021
Blog Conservative as “Defender of Liberty” In 1960, the great Southern political philosopher Richard Weaver penned an essay titled “Conservatism and…Brion McClanahanMay 7, 2021
Blog The Disappearance of Southern Conservatism Abraham Lincoln has become, for most mainline conservatives, an icon, and, along with Martin Luther…Boyd CatheyMay 3, 2021
Blog You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas Sometime back in the early sixties—climaxed in 1964 with Barry Goldwater’s efforts—the South with its…Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 19, 2021
Podcast Podcast Episode 245 The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 11-22, 2021 Topics: Reconciliation, Southern Politics,…Brion McClanahanJanuary 23, 2021
Blog The New Face of “Liberation” It is a sad thing that it should fall to a junior representative from New…Tom HerveyJanuary 22, 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 Pretenses You might call it propaganda, state lies, fraud, illusions or delusions. I prefer pretenses which…Robert PetersJanuary 14, 2021
Blog The Blundering Generations and the Crisis of Legitimacy Crises of legitimacy are rarely resolved without some resort to violence. The European experience in…John DevannyDecember 18, 2020
Blog The South in Retreat Editor's Note: This lecture was delivered at our 2019 Summer School on the New South.…Carey RobertsDecember 16, 2020
Blog The Power of the Powerless ‘The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books,…James Rutledge RoeschNovember 4, 2020
Blog A Fool and His Money are Soon Elected Will Rogers had a quip for just about any situation, but he loved to talk…Brion McClanahanNovember 3, 2020
Blog The Polls, Donald Trump, and Secession Far too many pundits and commentators live and die by polls. It seems that each…Boyd CatheyOctober 19, 2020
Blog Blackstone’s Influence on American Political Philosophy The question before us, ‘how did the writings of Blackstone influence American political philosophy, and…Barry ClarkMay 13, 2020
Blog Every Southerner Needs This Magazine 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
Review Posts Real Conservatism A review of The Southern Tradition: The Achievements and Limitations of Southern Conservatism (Harvard, 1994)…Won KimSeptember 3, 2019
Blog The Place of Nathaniel Macon in Southern History Many who are well acquainted with Southern history are almost entirely unfamiliar with the historical…William E. DoddJune 27, 2019
Blog The South Carolina Federalists Original material for Southern history has been so scarce at the centres where American historiographers…Ulrich B. PhillipsJune 26, 2019
Review Posts The First Congress A review of The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of…Brion McClanahanApril 2, 2019
Blog A Crisis of Confidence Pat Caddell died on February 16. Several major news outlets ran stories about his influence…Brion McClanahanFebruary 25, 2019
Blog In Search of the Real Southern Democrat It was an indelible moment, one that has resonated with me up to the present…Randall IveyFebruary 21, 2019
Blog Texas is Going to be Bluer Than Bluebonnets Texas will turn blue before it’s over with its local Neocons in charge. Former sports…Paul H. YarbroughFebruary 1, 2019
Blog Southern Conservatives The South is and always been conservative. But with the constant hammer of political correctness…Paul H. YarbroughJanuary 18, 2019
Blog Trump Agonistes The presidential election of 2016 gave promise to be a watershed in American politics. Donald…Clyde WilsonJanuary 16, 2019
Blog The Supreme Selection Supported by Senator Sasse and the Several Dwarfs Why does congress have hearings for people who are paraded through their judiciary committee- noise…Paul H. YarbroughOctober 8, 2018
Blog The Last republican President Jimmy Carter may have been the last Jeffersonian to be president. A recent article in…Brion McClanahanAugust 20, 2018
Blog July 4 Comes and Goes, but Doesn’t Square with The Swamp “Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty.…Paul H. YarbroughAugust 2, 2018
Blog Is Dixie A Captive Nation? Is the South today a captive nation? Most Southerners would never consider the question—most likely…James Ronald KennedyJuly 9, 2018
Blog Why the South Needs the Electoral College The Electoral College, a bulwark of federalism, is under attack. Straightforward abolition of the Electoral…Michael ArnheimJune 28, 2018
Blog The Only Way to Drain the Swamp “When you are up to your hindquarters in alligators—it is hard to remember that your…James Ronald KennedyMay 28, 2018
Blog Yankee Sanctification “It was my first introduction to damn Yankees,” my oldest sister remarked of her first…Dissident MamaMay 16, 2018
Blog This is why the Founding Generation Crafted the 2nd Amendment With the current heated debate over gun rights and the 2nd Amendment of the United…Lewis LibermanMarch 9, 2018
Review Posts Remember Mississippi A review of Remember Mississippi: How Chris McDaniel Exposed the GOP Establishment and Inspired a…Paul GottfriedFebruary 6, 2018
Blog The Historical Folly of “Nothing but Race.” At the base of most of the ongoing political debates currently raging in the United…Boyd CatheySeptember 20, 2017
Blog New South Voices of the Southern Tradition Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is…Brion McClanahanJuly 28, 2017
Blog Fired in Washington The Left is wringing its hands and talking about impeachment because of the Comey firing,…Christina JeffreyMay 23, 2017
Blog Republican Death Wish As readers of this column well know, I have never really trusted the Republican Party.…Thomas LandessApril 6, 2017
Blog On Liberty Andy Jackson's famous toast, "The Union—it must and shall be preserved," is still recorded in…Thomas FlemingApril 3, 2017
Blog The South’s Gonna Do It Again A few days ago I ran into an old friend, an historian, who started in…Thomas FlemingMarch 15, 2017
Blog Liberal and Conservative The terms “liberal” and “conservative” were usable signs in a society in which the state…Clyde WilsonDecember 8, 2016
Blog If This Be Treason…. The polls show that 33 per cent of the public still gives Dubya Bush a…Clyde WilsonOctober 4, 2016
Blog Up, Maybe, From Liberalism When I was active in College Democrats at my small state college, in the early…R.M. StanglerSeptember 30, 2016
Blog No Confederacy, No Republicans, But a Pale Horse The Republican party is no more republican then the Democratic party is democratic. Both are…Paul H. YarbroughSeptember 26, 2016
Blog Call Me Simple with Strange Words for Strange Days Call me simple... But I don’t understand: Why the government spends billions on welfare but…Clyde WilsonSeptember 7, 2016
Review Posts The South as an Independent Nation This article was originally published in Southern Partisan Magazine in 1997. "Being a Southerner is…William CawthonSeptember 1, 2016
Blog More Deja Vu, circa the George W. Bush Years Twenty-three Republican Senators joined a large majority of Democrats to vote for the Bush bill…Clyde WilsonAugust 31, 2016
Blog South of New York with Charley and Me Southerners (and there are many who still proudly spell that with a capital “S” even…Paul H. YarbroughAugust 25, 2016
Blog The Vanishing Republic of Our Fathers The New South is one of the more misunderstood periods in American history. The contemporary…Brion McClanahanAugust 11, 2016
Blog Rats and Republicans Never knew for sure where the expression came from that my grandmother voiced to my…Paul H. YarbroughAugust 9, 2016
Review Posts Are Southerners Different? This essay appeared in the 1984 winter issue of Southern Partisan magazine. In the best…John William CorringtonJuly 26, 2016
Blog The Imperial and Momentary We This piece was originally published in Chronicles Magazine, October 2012. “O Fame, O Fame! Many…Clyde WilsonMay 13, 2016
Blog Vale Res Publica Once again, it is politicking time in the good ol’ US of A. The Democrats,…John DevannyMarch 24, 2016
Blog Elephants in Dixie The origin of the elephant as a symbol of the Republican Party occurred in 1874…John MarquardtFebruary 9, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library The Way We Are Now I promised to keep you updated on our government’s radio ads. In the latest, the…Clyde WilsonFebruary 3, 2016
Clyde Wilson Library It’s True What They Say About Dixie Throughout most of American history region has been a better predictor of political position than…Clyde WilsonJanuary 27, 2016
Review Posts “We want not Gascons, but Southern gentlemen, honorable, high-toned men of strict integrity and straight hair.” Gentlemen of the Historical Society of Mecklenburg (1876): Our president has appropriately introduced the series…Daniel Harvey HillDecember 15, 2015
Review Posts Defending the Southern Tradition History is a liberal art and one profits by studying the whole of it, including…Richard M. WeaverNovember 26, 2015
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 Thomas F. Bayard and the Defense of the South, 1866-1876 This article is reprinted from Edward Spencer, An Outline Public Life and Services Of Thomas F. Bayard, Senator…Edward SpencerOctober 27, 2015
Blog The Last Southern Democrat “Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat, They oughta get a rich man to vote…John DevannyOctober 19, 2015
Blog Trump: A Southern Conservative Perspective Source: Washington Post There are several attributes of Donald Trump’s bid for the U.S. Presidency…Marshall DeRosaSeptember 2, 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 Caitlyn Jenner and the New South It is not necessary to detail Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn Jenner. Suffice it to…Marshall DeRosaJuly 2, 2015
Clyde Wilson Library The Grand Old (Stupid) Party The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending,…Clyde WilsonJuly 1, 2015
Blog “Hang the Usurpers” On November 21, 1793, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill titled “An Act…Marshall DeRosaJune 15, 2015
Blog “…The Patriotic Gore, That Flecked the Streets of Baltimore?”: Musings on the Baltimore Riot by a Native Son The recent riots in Baltimore gave most Americans pause as they struggled to make sense…John DevannyMay 15, 2015
Blog No History, No Culture, No Past The title of this article is how the radical Muslim organization, ISIS, characterizes its…Gail JarvisMay 14, 2015
Blog New From Southern Pens, Part 2 Maryland Redeemed Everybody knows that our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was written by Francis…Clyde WilsonMay 8, 2015
Blog Post Appomattox Fallacies Justifying Federal Tyranny “We the people” of Dixie are in a unique position in today’s America. We are,…James Ronald KennedyApril 23, 2015
Blog The Old South,The New South, and The Neutered South The phrase, "The New South", appears in the 1886 speech that Atlanta newspaper editor, Henry…Gail JarvisApril 6, 2015
Review Posts True American Whiggery: John Tyler and Abel P. Upshur This piece is taken from Brion McClanahan and Clyde Wilson Forgotten Conservatives in American History.…Brion McClanahanMarch 31, 2015
Blog “His Accidency:” The Indispensable John Tyler In honor of John Tyler's birthday (March 29), I thought it proper to include a…Dave BennerMarch 30, 2015
Blog Calhoun on American Government, Politics, and War "When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who…Clyde WilsonMarch 19, 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
Blog Is Disparaging the South Becoming Passe? The lack of interest in the film "Selma" by both the public and the film…Gail JarvisFebruary 6, 2015
Blog Yankee Narrative vs. Southern Truth To the chagrin and mortification of many liberals, Rolling Stone magazine had to apologize for…Walter D. (Donnie) KennedyJanuary 14, 2015
Blog The South Hating Business The defeat of liberal Democrat Mary Landrieu removed the Deep South’s last Democratic U.S. Senator.…James Ronald KennedyDecember 11, 2014
Blog Please “Dump Dixie” Michael Tomasky at the Daily Beast believes “It’s Time to Dump Dixie.” Please do. He…Brion McClanahanDecember 10, 2014
Blog Ferguson Events over the past several days in Ferguson, MO, should not surprise those familiar with…Marshall DeRosaAugust 19, 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
Review Posts The Eighteenth Century to the Twentieth Judged by the quality of the men it brought to power the eighteenth-century Virginia way…Charles S. SydnorApril 23, 2014
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