The Challenge of the Southern Tradition
In 1966, Senator Jim Eastland of Mississippi walked into the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked, “Feel hot in heah?” A staffer replied: “Well Senator, the thermostat is set at 72 degrees, but we can make… »
Sectionalism Returns
Recently Michael S. Greve of George Mason University Law School wrote an insightful article which contends that sectionalism has reared its head again. This new sectionalism is dividing the states along the lines of economic… »
Up at the Forks of the Creek: In Search of American Populism
Editor’s note: With the rise of “populism” around the world, we should revisit the history and origins of American populism. In “Populism” we are confronted with a term that raises so many different connotations in… »
Two Aristocracies
Editor’s note: This piece was originally printed as an unsigned piece in DeBow’s Review in 1866. The author had already recognized that the deal struck between Midwestern farmers and Northeastern merchants would in short order… »
Reflections of a Ghost: An Agrarian View After Fifty Years
Of the twelve agrarians who wrote the symposium I’ll Take My Stand, only three are alive: Robert Penn Warren, the poet and novelist, Lyle Lanier, a psychologist and former executive vice-president of the University of… »
Musings of a Southern Antifederalist on the Presidential Election
The one consolation of the Antifederalist persuasion is telling everyone you meet “I told you so.” Granted, this does not go down well in most circles, be they progressive, socialist, conservative, neo-conservative, constitutionalist, et al. … »
Sayings By or For Southerners, Part XXIV
Totalitarianism, defined as the existential rule of Gnostic activists, is the end form of progressive civilization.–Eric Voegelin The South is the foe to Northern industry—to our mines, our manufactures, and our commerce.–Abolitionist Theodore Parker, 1861… »
Sovereignty
The reader has perceived that the question concerning state powers, is condensed in the word sovereignty, and therefore any new ideas upon the subject, if to be found, would not be unedifying. A will to… »
Pope Francis and the Southern Tradition
Recent attempts made by the left and the right to make Pope Francis one of “their” own has sparked considerable debate among the political class and their voices in the mainstream media. Pope Francis’s speech before… »
Bailing the Capitalists: Our Southern Fathers Told Us What to Expect
“. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They [the people], and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not… »
