The Baby-Faced Bomber

The Baby-Faced Bomber

by | Apr 24, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Sometimes a picture speaks volumes. Sometimes it’s outright deceptive. The picture of “Bomber No. 2” didn’t look a bit like a mass murderer. A sweet-faced college kid, the former lifeguard, the nice young man described by classmates and...

The Battle of Latta

by | Apr 23, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

If you want to get technical about it, the Civil War has been over for 148 years. Still, sporadic fighting breaks out occasionally — as it did in a South Carolina school district over the right to wear a Confederate flag to school. When the encyclopedia of student...

News From Around the South 4/15 – 4/22

by | Apr 22, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Georgia: Mayor Praises Confederate Memorial Effort MARIETTA, Ga. — Members of the United Daughters of Confederacy Kennesaw Chapter were joined by a little over 50 others Sunday to celebrate Confederate Memorial Day. The family friendly event was held at the...
Boston Bombings Only Unite Us

Boston Bombings Only Unite Us

by | Apr 18, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

We witnessed pure evil Monday at the Boston Marathon — a kind of debauched, monstrous cunning that leaves individuals numb with grief and asking: “Why?” Terrorism is a reprehensible tactic — no matter foreign or domestic — one that seeks to bring down as...

The South and the New Deal

by | Apr 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Invoking “dysfunction” is now the basic black of punditry about American politics. As the British political theorist David Runciman recently observed in the London Review of Books, “Commentators find it almost impossible to write about American democracy these days...