Who Cares About You?

Who Cares About You?

by | Oct 1, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomic theory economist of the 20th century. I was trying to impress Alchian with my...
Brazen Acts of Corrpution

Brazen Acts of Corrpution

by | Sep 26, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Last week, media outlets reported the existence of a whistleblower complaint filed with the inspector general of the intelligence community against President Donald Trump. The IC encompasses all civilian and military employees and contractors who work for the federal...
Women Edited Out of Civil War

Women Edited Out of Civil War

by | Sep 25, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Statues of men in uniform, Union and Confederate, astride their big horses, still dot the landscape of the North and the South: Brave men, no doubt, but where were the women during those bloody years? Consider not just what women suffered during the Civil War—bad...
Lynch Law, Anyone?

Lynch Law, Anyone?

by | Sep 24, 2019 | Archive, Southern Partisan

We can’t seem to have a news event (and everything that happens in our capital city is a capital-E event these days) without the searing cry in the background, drowning out all other discourse: “Impeach! Impeach!” You might call it an echo of the old...