What the Founders Feared
“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” — James Madison (1751-1836) America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest...
News From Around the South, 11/10 to 11/17
GEORGIA: The Military History Hidden Under Today’s Chamblee This week, on Veterans Day 2025, angling through 5 p.m. Atlanta traffic with my aging vehicle in need of repair, I was attempting to get to the Chamblee dealership before it closed. Credit: Jeff Hullinger The...
Can the President Disrupt Free Speech?
While the country’s attention was drawn to the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7), which purports to designate the ideology of antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization”...
How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within
Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to unpredictable alliances, the war was less a straight line to freedom and more...
From President to Profit
Donald Trump’s approval numbers continue to crater. Even Republicans have cooled on the president’s performance. But the president shows no sign of noticing, nor is he changing his ways. Even his gaslighting has gone wan. He’s failed to make...Obiter Dicta
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