Obiter Dicta
The Inexplicable War
Why are we there? Is it because Israel was going to go there first/anyway, or because we wanted Israel to go? What are we doing...
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News From Around the South, 3/9 to 3/16
Mississippi-set Sinners wins four Academy Awards Sinners’ extraordinary run has finally come to an end at the Oscars 2026, nearly a year after it...
Book Review: A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715 to 1865
From colonial times to the present, Americans have had a fascinating relationship with firearms. Across this timeline people’s perspectives on firearms have varied greatly depending on who possessed them and for what purpose those that had them used them. Adding to previous illuminating scholarship on this subject, but sharpening the focus by zooming in on a specific time period and place is A...
The Last Class of the Dean of Southern Cuisine
Down in Savannah, over on Waters Avenue, in the shadow of Memorial Health University Medical Center, lies a quaint, cloud-rain-gray cottage....
A History of Potlucks in the South
"What's your potluck dish?" Here in the South, it's a question one might ask of a potential employee, church committee member or even a spouse. It's...