Slackers and Safety Pins
News flash, kids: Things aren’t free. Things cost money. And “free” things provided to you by the government cost other people’s money. Donald Trump gets it — somewhat. He vows to repeal Obamacare’s most burdensome federal mandates that...
News From Around the South 11/7 to 11/14
OHIO: Mistrial in Shooting of Black Motorist by White Officer The jury in the case of former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing, who shot and killed an unarmed man in July of 2015, says it can’t reach a unanimous verdict on murder and...
Trump and The South’s Racial Politics
For decades, Donald Trump has been known as a narcissistic, bombastic New York businessman who craves the media spotlight. However, if you unpack the dynamics of his support as a politician, Trump’s stunningly successful run to the top of the Republican ticket is less...
Painful Choices
In most Presidential election years, the most important vote is the vote for President of the United States. This year, the most important vote looks like the vote for control of the Senate. Regardless of who wins the White House, the freedom that Americans have taken...
The Savage Civil War
Americans have a perhaps understandable tendency to romanticize the Civil War, a four-year “Iliad” that remade the nation at the cost of at least 750,000 lives. Its effects still echo through our present-day controversies over the legacy of slavery, the display of...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