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Richard Weaver

The Southern Tradition: Twenty Years After Richard Weaver

By Thomas Landess

The image of Richard Weaver that sticks in my memory is a disturbing one. He is standing before an audience in a conference room at Vanderbilt University, his gnome-like features barely rising above the tall,… »

  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Tradition
  • Thomas H. Landess

Recovering Authentic (Politically Incorrect) Conservatism

By Paul Gottfried

A review of Writing on the Southern Front: Authentic Conservatism For Our Times (Routledge, 2017) by Joseph Scotchie Joe Scotchie’s recently published anthology Writing on the Southern Front: Authentic Conservatism For Our Times made me… »

  • Book Review
  • Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Featured
  • Joseph Scotchie
  • M.E. Bradford
  • Mark Royden Winchell
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  • Paul Gottfried
  • Richard Weaver

The Challenge of the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

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… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Brion McClanahan
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Tradition

Lee the Philosopher

By R.M. Stangler

Our culture has, of late, become rather fixated on the idea that every historical figure in our past should have anticipated how moral worldviews would evolve after his or her death. Now, clearly, this is… »

  • Political Correctness
  • R.M. Stangler
  • Richard Weaver
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Southern Culture

Why the South Won the Civil War

By David Middleton

Fred Douglas Young, Richard M. Weaver, 1910-1963: A Life of the Mind. University of Missouri Press, 1995. 217; Joseph Scotchie, editor, The Vision of Richard Weaver. Transaction Publishers, 1995. Early in the fall of 1939,… »

  • David Middleton
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Conservatism

Is Pluralism Enough?

By Walt Garlington

Fr John Strickland, reflecting on the Renaissance of Western Europe, wrote, . . . For Burckhardt, the Renaissance (for the first time a distinct period in history) became the moment of cultural liberation, the breakthrough… »

  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Religion
  • Walt Garlington

The Theology of Secession

By M.E. Bradford

At the very deepest level there is a central truth about the War Between the States which is now, even by the best of Southerners, almost never mentioned, although their forefathers had once spoken of… »

  • M.E. Bradford
  • Richard Weaver
  • Secession
  • Southern Religion
  • War for Southern Independence

Pope Francis and the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

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… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Brion McClanahan
  • Fuller Callaway
  • John Taylor of Caroline
  • Nashville Agrarians
  • Pope Francis
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Tradition
  • Wendell Berry
  • Yankees

Why Yankees Won’t (And Can’t) Leave the South Alone

By Forrest McDonald

This essay was first published in Southern Partisan in the Winter, 1985. Southerners rarely while away their leisure hours by contemplating Yankees, for there is no point in thinking of unpleasant things if one is… »

  • Forrest McDonald
  • Richard Weaver
  • Southern Culture
  • Southern History
  • Southern Religion
  • Yankees

The Meaning of Name and Place

By Richard M. Weaver

An address delivered on August 10, 1950, before the annual reunion of the Weaver family. Everybody admits, I believe, that the most difficult people of all for a man to convince are the members of… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Republicanism
  • Richard Weaver

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