News From Around the South, 1/22 to 1/29
FLORIDA: Florida Senate committee seeks to prevent removal of Confederate statues TALLAHASSEE — An effort to prevent removal of historical monuments and memorials started to advance Monday in the Senate as cities such as Jacksonville fight over Confederate...
Government by Experts
I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship — during which the federal...
The Ghosts of Black Appalachia Visit Her Kitchen
When Crystal Wilkinson wants to summon her kitchen ghosts, she retrieves a fuchsia-hued dress from her closet and hangs it in the doorway. The sturdy, double-hemmed garment invites her grandmother Christine, who sewed it by hand and wore it often before she died in...
The Most Dangerous Conservative
The New York Times put Charles Murray on the cover of its Sunday Magazine, calling him “The Most Dangerous Conservative.” That was after he co-wrote the book, “The Bell Curve,” which argued that different ethnic groups have, on average,...
News From Around the South, 1/15 to 1/22
SOUTH CAROLINA: Saluda, S.C.: Where Texas Began SALUDA , S.C.– In a state that has long embraced lost causes like the Civil War, Saluda County has a special fondness for one that happened a thousand miles away. The county, nestled in the pine forests and rolling...Obiter Dicta
In the last days of East Germany, when government officials detected that their power was unraveling, they ratcheted up enforcement Read More
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NORTH CAROLINA: Two ‘Human’Caused’ Fires Found at 16th Century Historic Site Two fires were discovered simultaneously at a North Carolina historic site dedicated to England’s first settlements on the continent — and Read More