Is A College Education Worth It?
August is the month when parents bid farewell to not only their college-bound youngsters but also a sizable chunk of cash for tuition. More than 18 million students attend our more than 4,300 degree-granting institutions. A question parents, their college-bound...
News From Around the South 7/31 to 8/7
VIRGINIA: Battlefield Offers Civil War Experience PETERSBURG, Va. — The 1st South Carolina Infantry and the 3rd U.S. Infantry will be drilling, presenting firing demonstrations, and presenting programs on Civil War soldier life in battle and beyond on Saturday,...
Myth of A Unified South
One-hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the thirst for an alternate version of Southern history in the US remains unquenchable. The Confederate flag endures as a symptom of the deeper cancer of racism, eating into the bone of the nation. And now a...
Instability is not Unpredictability
One of the great myths about President Trump is that America’s enemies would fear him because he is predictably unpredictable. Trump himself stated during the campaign that he didn’t want to spell out general military strategy because he didn’t want...
News From Around the South 7/24 to 7/31
KENTUCKY: Parade Committee to Hear Confederate Flag Appeal PADUCAH, Ky. — A parade committee will hear an appeal from the Sons of Confederate Veterans after a Kentucky city commission voted to limit participation in its Veterans Day parade to those representing the...Obiter Dicta
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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