Women Championed Monuments
If you look at photos of the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, the participants are entirely white and almost exclusively male. While the so-called alt-right make rape threats to women and insult their enemies by attacking their masculinity, their adoption of...
The Welfare State’s Legacy
That the problems of today’s black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought to be self-evident and beyond question. This is what academics and the civil rights establishment have...
News From Around the South 9/7 to 9/18
VIRGINIA: Episcopalians Struggle With Confederate Past Recent eruptions of violence over Confederate symbols like the rebel flag have prompted impassioned national debates — and not just in the public arena. Churches, too, are wrestling with the question of what to do...
The Anger of the Hurricane Media
WASHINGTON — Here we sit in the comfort of Washington, D.C., and read of the discomfort in Florida. The massive Hurricane Irma moved from the Caribbean up through south Florida, displacing as many as 5 million people. It marched up the west coast, displacing many...Obiter Dicta
In 200-plus years of interpreting the free speech clause of the First Amendment, the courts have narrowed and expanded its Read More
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SOUTH CAROLINA: With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding The monument is expected to cost between $1 million and $2 million for the cost of the Read More