by editor | Sep 22, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Seventeenth-century poet and intellect John Milton predicted, “When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation.” Gore Vidal, his 20th-century intellectual successor, elaborated saying:...
by editor | Sep 21, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
TENNESSEE: University of the South Issues Statement Rejecting Previous Veneration of Confederacy, Slave Owners SEWANEE, Tenn. — The Board of Regents for the University of the South in Sewanee has posted a letter that university officials hope will mark a break from...
by editor | Sep 17, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
A federal court in Pennsylvania this week has become the first in the nation to rule that the lockdown, social distancing and essential workplace regulations imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf are unconstitutional. The judge found that the governor’s orders were so...
by editor | Sep 16, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
The current COVID-19 pandemic, the largest public health crisis in a century, threatens the health of people across the globe. The U.S. has had the most diagnosed cases – surpassing 6 million – and more than 180,000 deaths. But six months into the pandemic, the U.S....
by editor | Sep 15, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
Paul Kengor is a professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. He has just published “The Devil and Karl Marx,” a careful look at the diabolical side of Karl Marx. The book has come out during an important time in our...
by editor | Sep 14, 2020 | Archive, Southern Partisan
VIRGINIA: Charlottesville Removes Confederate Statue Near Site of Violent White Supremacist Rally With yellow bands and rope wrapped around its legs, waist and ankles, a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., the site of a violent white supremacist rally in 2017,...