SC’s growth story is becoming the South’s growth story
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the country’s economic center of gravity continues to move south. My new report, Accelerating South, captures the scale of that shift: the American South is now a roughly $6 trillion regional economy, outpacing...
Trump Loses Two More — and Does It Matter?
This week, President Donald Trump lost twice in his war against a free press. Will it stop him? Almost certainly not. The first solid loss came on Wednesday, in a suit Trump has brought twice against the Des Moines Register and its pollster. Their crime? Predicting...
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LOUISIANA: LSU struggles with multimillion-dollar athletics deficit: ‘We’ve got to stop that bleeding After years of minimal profits, LSU athletics is now tens of millions of dollars in the red. LSU President Wade Rousse told the state Board of Regents on...
Fulton Sheen and Me
History yields people whose influence extends far beyond their earthly lives. They become teachers to generations they never met, spiritual companions to people whose names they never knew, and reminders that faith is not merely a set of propositions to be accepted...
Echoes of Reconstruction: A Black Soldier Reports on Human Rights Violations in the South During Reconstruction
By Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog. Many of the records of the Reconstruction Era were written by white men. These include reports from government officials, newspaper reporters and editors, and long-form books by white authors. Some of this...Obiter Dicta
The one thing you can’t make when you get old is old friends. Pam Fleischaker was one of my oldest Read More
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VIRGINIA: UVA Press cancels book critical of leading Southern food figures In early 2025, University of Virginia Press announced the forthcoming release of “The Strange Career of Cornbread Nationalism.” The Read More