Obiter Dicta

CSA

Civil War Combat – Gettysburg’s Wheatfield: The Show that Left me Wanting More

Civil War Combat – Gettysburg’s Wheatfield: The Show that Left me Wanting More

The 1990s played host to some of the best-known pieces of Civil War media, from Gettysburg to The Civil War Journal. The decade was a Civil War buff’s dream, and riding this wave into 2000 was the History Channel, which produced the 12-episode series Civil War Combat. Each episode featured historians, such as Ed Bearss and D. Scott Hartwig, discussing some of the war’s bloodiest battles, with...

read more

Recent Articles

The American Presidency and Perpetual War

One of the defining failures of modern American government has been the steady erosion of Congress's constitutional authority over war. The Constitution grants Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Congress decides to go to war. The president wages...

The Limits of Merit

The New York City Public School system is 62% Black and Hispanic. At its eight most prestigious competitive high schools, 80% of the students are Asian or White. Wait — what's considered the most selective of the city's schools, Stuyvesant High, 777 students were...

News From Around the South, 7/13 to 7/20

MISSISSIPPI: Senatobia officer involved in fatal shooting of Black toddler was accused of making a racially offensive remark two days prior Sgt. Hunter Foster directed the remark at a Black colleague before the June 14 shooting outside Walmart, according to an...

Can Trump Sue Himself?

The question recently asked by a federal judge in Miami — can the president sue an entity in the executive branch of the federal government and benefit from the resolution of that lawsuit? — seems to beg the question. How could anyone sue an entity he controls and...

Other Links