A Cure for Mass Shootings Doesn’t Exist
Every time there is a mass shooting, a chorus goes up: “We must do something to keep this from happening again. We can’t tolerate it any longer.” Revulsion understandably creates a demand for remedies. But every time, we do nothing, to the fury of...
Schools: Desert Civil War Past at Peril
You can’t go far in Northern Virginia without being reminded of the Civil War: The historical markers confront you near the Bailey’s Crossroads Old Navy and the Burger King by what was at one time Springfield Station; they’re at the O&E Railroad...
Against Gun Control: The ‘I Want To’ Factor
So, let’s imagine that in response to the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, the government, federal or state, strongly tightens control of firearms. And then what? No more shootings? No more Nikolas Cruzes and such like, taking out their personal malice on the...
News From Around the South 2/12 to 2/19
SOUTH CAROLINA: Civil War Museum Doesn’t Want State House Confederate Flag COLUMBIA, S.C. — The S.C. Confederate Relic Room commission reluctantly approved on Thursday a pared-down plan to display the Confederate flag that was removed in 2015 from the...
America’s Complex Threat Environment
On February 13, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee and discussed his just-released “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community” report. That document synthesizes what U.S....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