If you have to ask “what War?” then you probably aren’t from the South. The War is the key event in American history. Nothing comes close. The War for Independence founded the United States, but The War for Southern Independence has come to define American history. It dominates American memory. Unfortunately, as this excellent article at The American Thinker explains, that means most Americans have, …more
If you listen to the woke idiots on the left, you would think that no American has ever heard about slavery, or that they have been taught that slavery was a benevolent institution devoid of any “sin.” You see, if we just doubled down and taught more woke history, then America would be alright. I guess they missed the massively popular 12 Years a Slave, …more
This one won’t win me any friends among some libertarian and conservative groups. The 14th Amendment is one of the worst things to happen to America. It was well intended, and as originally interpreted (and ratified) it would have allowed newly freed slaves access to the courts and would have protected their private property. That was it. Then the federal courts got involved, and now …more
Today is Alexander Hamilton’s birthday, at least as far as we know. There is some debate about when he was born, but regardless, January 11 has long been recognized as his day. If you have followed me for any length of time, you know that I am very hard on Hamilton. Rightfully so, particularly when you read essays like this that seem to believe that …more
Very few journalists are willing to take a heroic stand for the truth, particularly if that means taking down a sacred cow like W.E.B. DuBois. You see, both the left and the right have an affinity for DuBois’s version of Reconstruction. Notice the love “conservatives” like Bill O’Reilly, Brian Kilmeade, and Dinesh D’Souza have for Frederick Douglass and the destruction brought on the South by …more
If blind squirrel can find a nut then every now and then a terrible website can publish a moderately decent article. The Atlantic is typically stinking garbage, but a recent piece on the movement to merge several Oregon counties with Idaho–a modern secession movement–is not bad. It has typically leftist stupidity (all of these people are dangerous, uneducated gun owners), but the core of the …more
It’s good to be back in 2022. I hope you had a great Holiday season, and I wish everyone a productive, happy, and healthy 2022. Back to business, and the core of my “business” is pointing out the absurdity of the Straussian/neocon “proposition nation” myth. And the heart of that myth is both an unhealthy obsession with Abraham Lincoln and a corresponding hatred of John …more
What legislation led to the woke madness of modern America? Christopher Caldwell points to the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s. This is near heresy in 2021. Suggesting that anything the civil rights crusaders did was detrimental to American society is almost like nailing the 95 Theses to the door in Wittenberg. You cannot challenge leftist dogma. But, if anyone reviews what the opponents of …more
Should we abolish judicial review? That’s a tricky question. It’s easy to argue that the practice was never intended to be used. Jefferson said as much after John Marshall kept sticking his nose into every constitutional question, both at the federal and State level. Marshall wasn’t the first to do it. The Supreme Court declared a federal law to be constitutional long before Marbury v. …more
Did America really have a “founding”? It depends on how you frame the question. If America was a “proposition nation” as Lincoln and modern politicos on both the left and right argue, then yes, the United States had a distinct “founding” based on new principles. But what if it was a continuation of the Anglo-American tradition or a byproduct of Western Civilization? What if the …more
Most Americans recognize a few of the Founding Fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin—but what about some of the important but forgotten men who have been lost to time? They have great stories that need to be told. Here are ten whose fantastic lives are in many ways better than fiction.
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