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John C. Calhoun

Remembering John C. Calhoun

By Brad Pond

The spring of 1850 is an ominous perpetrator. Notwithstanding the crisis our country faced during those trying years leading to the so-called compromise of 1850, March 31st marks the death of one of our most… »

  • Brad Pond
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern Tradition

John C. Calhoun: American

By Brion McClanahan

No American is more vilified than John C. Calhoun. A recent biography has labeled him the American “heretic,” and it has become fashionable to blame every political problem in American on this long deceased statesman.… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • John C. Calhoun

Honoring Calhoun

By Henry Cabot Lodge

Editor’s Note: This speech was delivered before the Senate on March 12, 1910, at the dedication of John C. Calhoun’s statue in Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol. Address of Mr. (Henry Cabot) Lodge,… »

  • Henry Cabot Lodge
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Northern Studies
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

The Termite Infestation of American History

By James Rutledge Roesch

As part of its campaign to pander to the important and urgent needs of African-Americans with extremely divisive yet ultimately performative identity politics,[1] the Biden-Harris administration has announced that it will resume Barack Obama’s decision… »

  • 1619 Project
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Andrew Jackson
  • James Rutledge Roesch
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Neoconservatism
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A Fig for the Constitution

By James Ronald Kennedy

“A fig for the Constitution” if it does not protect our most basic rights was John Randolph’s nineteenth century estimation of the value of the Constitution. In 2021 his words of warning are even more… »

  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • John C. Calhoun
  • John Randolph of Roanoke
  • Southern Political Tradition
  • United States Constitution

Defining Southern Conservatism

By Brad Pond

Southern conservatism is considered an enigma when juxtaposed against the bipartisan political configuration having been imposed upon us since the beginning of the American experiment. The candor of its echoed sentiment as a past relic… »

  • John C. Calhoun
  • Southern Conservatism
  • Southern Political Tradition

The Calhoun Monument Deserved Legal and Historical Protection

By Stewart O. Jones

As some business owners and residents on King Street described it, “Charleston was raped” on the night of May 30, 2020, as mobs looted and burned the Holy City, turning so-called “peaceful protests” violent. Following… »

  • John C. Calhoun
  • South Carolina
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Stewart Jones

Leave Calhoun Alone

By H. Lee Cheek, Jr.

Perhaps no American thinker has suffered more in recent days than John C. Calhoun, whose work and personage are often dismissed by his critics for a single phrase attributed to him, diminishing the careful and… »

  • H. Lee Cheek
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Political Correctness

Rewriting the History of “Calhoun University.”

By Andrew P. Calhoun

On June 13, 2020, Clemson University president Jim Clements proclaimed, “this was an important day for Clemson-a historic day for Clemson.”  Nothing could be further from the truth.  It was but another victory for historical… »

  • Andrew P. Calhoun
  • Clemson University
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Political Correctness

Those Cowardly Tigers

By William J. Watkins

In a gosh attempt at virtue signaling, the Clemson University Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to remove John C. Calhoun’s name from the school’s Honors College. This decision came after former Tiger football stars… »

  • Clemson University
  • John C. Calhoun
  • Political Correctness
  • William Watkins

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