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Political Correctness

Equality is NOT America’s Founding Principle

By Boyd Cathey

Our “conservative” punditry go forth daily in what seems increasingly to be an already lost battle against the agenda of the left and its progressivist minions in and outside the Biden administration. That agenda enjoys… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • Conservatism
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Conservatism
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Foxes in the Henhouse

By John Marquardt

During the past half century, there has been an ever-increasing tide of derogatory comments about the South in general and the Confederacy in particular.  In more recent years, what began merely as verbal sneers and… »

  • Confederate Symbols
  • John Marquardt
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee

Dixie, Quo Vadis?

By John Marquardt

Many today feel that true Southerners living in the eleven States of the former Confederacy are, in many ways, once again fighting for their very existence and face the dismal prospect of the South they… »

  • John Marquardt
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern History
  • Yankees

Robert E. Lee and (Woke General) Please Like Me

By Philip Leigh

Ty Seidule’s mea culpa memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me, has generated the predictable supporters: mainstream media outlets, leftist dominated history departments, and neoconservative “intellectuals.” This says more about Seidule than his book. He just… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Political Correctness
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ty Seidule
  • War for Southern Independence

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
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

Yankees 38, VMI 3

By Forrest L. Marion

The Virginia Military Institute, ever the underdog. . . . For longtime VMI football fans, the above score may be all-too-painfully reminiscent. I recall the first time I heard of VMI. It was a University… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Forrest Marion
  • Political Correctness
  • Ralph Northam
  • Virginia Military Institute

Now Is The Best Time To Be Southern

By Jason Morgan

These past several years, we Americans have been living in an accelerating anti-cultural vortex. Day by day the Yankee juggernaut gains steam. Once content with carpetbombing Hanoi and Baghdad, the Yankees are now taking their… »

  • Cancel Culture
  • Jason Morgan
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition
  • Yankees

A Look Into Our Future

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked? Ecclesiastes 7: 13 Scott Howard, in his book The Trans-gender Industrial Complex, says on pages 164-5: The so-called Enlightenment made man… »

  • H.V. Traywick
  • Political Correctness
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern Tradition

Racism and Reputation

By Rev. Larry Beane

Two terms that are tossed about with great liberality today are “racist” and “white supremacist.”  Like other words with specific definitions, such as “fascist” and “Nazi,” these labels are losing their specific social, economic, political,… »

  • Confederate Monuments
  • Larry Beane
  • Political Correctness
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • War for Southern Independence

The Death of the Museum of the Confederacy

By Valerie Protopapas

In May of 2008, I became embroiled in a situation that had developed with the former Museum of the Confederacy. Having received an e-mail sent to the membership from Director S. Waite Rawls asking for… »

  • Confederate Symbols
  • Museum of the Confederacy
  • Political Correctness
  • Valerie Protopapas

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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
  • 2019 Summer School: The New South
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
  • 2018 Summer School: Southern Identity Through Southern Music
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: Attacking Confederate Monuments and its Meaning for America
  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
  • 2016 Scholars Conference: Nullification: A 21st Century Remedy
  • 2016 Summer School: The Southern Tradition and the Renewal of America
  • 2015 Summer School: The Southern Tradition
  • 2014 Summer School: The War for Southern Independence
  • 2013 Scholars Conference: Music and the Southern Tradition
  • 2013 Summer School: Understanding the South and the Southern Tradition
  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
  • 2011 Scholars Conference: The South and America’s Wars
  • 2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature II
  • 2010 Scholars Conference: State Nullification Secession and the Human Scale of Political Order
  • 2010 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature
  • 2009 Summer School: The Meaning and Legacy of Reconstruction
  • 2008 Summer School: Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric
  • 2007 Summer School: The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South
  • 2006 Summer School: The Southern Agrarian Tradition
  • 2005 Summer School: Re-Thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy
  • 2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861
  • 2003 Summer School: The American Decentralist Tradition
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