by editor | Jun 16, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Tommy Daras is not a sentimental man in the documentary “Meltdown in Dixie.” He drives dragsters, smokes cigarettes, curses with ease, and simply wants to make some money at his Orangeburg ice cream shop. But the filmmakers capture his emotional fight to take down a...
by editor | Jun 15, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Karl Marx’s comment came to mind as President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to equate their tete-a-tete at the G7 confab in Cornwall, England, to the Atlantic Charter conference of 80...
by editor | Jun 15, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Research Finds Scores of Rockbridge African American Men Joined Union In Civil War LEXINGTON, Va. (WDBJ) – When researchers at the Rockbridge Historical Society were looking into local African American history, they were in for a surprise. “And I saw a...
by editor | Jun 10, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
For the first time in American history, a federal judge last week authorized the government to admit as evidence in a criminal case in a public courtroom words uttered by the defendant that were obtained under torture. The fruits of torture — which is any cruel or...
by editor | Jun 9, 2021 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The classics department at Princeton University recently decided that the idea that classics majors ought to know Latin or Greek has been a mistake. Old-fashioned, perhaps. Until now, undergrads who wanted to major in the study of classical texts needed to come into...