Yasukuni & The South

On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council held an open debate on the theme of “war, its lesson, and the search for a permanent peace.” Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, addressing the Security Council, laid out the core of the...

What is the Mind of the South?

Since the dawn of introspection, which predates Homer at least, what collective mind has been more exhaustively or passionately psychoanalyzed than the Mind of the South? In the decades since W.J. Cash probed and disparaged it in his historic 1929 essay for The...

News from Around the South 10/28 to 11/4

Tennessee: Second Confederate Flag Stolen JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — One of five flagpoles at Oak Hill Cemetery in Johnson City is empty this week for the second time this month after someone stole the Confederate flag it bore. “It’s the second time in the last two...

News from Around the South 10/1 to 10/8

Tennessee: State Library Digitizing Civil War Relics CHATTANOOGA, Tenn — Tennessee residents are invited to bring their Civil War relics to the Chattanooga Convention Center this week for documentation. Continuing its “Looking Back: The Civil War in...

Rebel Flag Invading North

IT’S BEEN SPOTTED on license plates in Atlantic City and Collingdale, draped across a truck in a Kohl’s parking lot and flying on poles outside homes in Montgomery and Chester counties. You can see it on the side of a building off Aramingo Avenue in Port...