Obiter Dicta
The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion
Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and...
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News From Around the South, 9/21 to 9/28
LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We've got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics...
SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south. My new report, Accelerating South, captures the scale of that shift: the American South is now a roughly $6 trillion regional economy, outpacing both the Northeast and the Pacific while attracting people, capital and industries at a historic pace. Few states illustrate that...
Echoes of Reconstruction: A Black Soldier Reports on Human Rights Violations in the South During Reconstruction
By Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Many of the records of the Reconstruction Era were written by white men. These include...
The Best New Barbecue Joints In The South
Every two years, Southern Living posts its best new barbecue joints in the South, and that highly anticipated list just came out this past week...