Lost Cause Free Trade

by | Aug 16, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

The French classical economist Frédéric Bastiat once remarked, “when goods do not cross borders, armies will.” Democratic Senator James Hammond of South Carolina infamously agreed with those sentiments on March 4, 1858, nearly eight years after Bastiat’s death. In a...
The Fading of the Old South

The Fading of the Old South

by | Jan 17, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Politically speaking, we live by caricature. Particularly in the age of satellite TV news and Internet fulmination, the temptation is to melodrama. So I wasn’t terribly surprised to read a recent article in the online magazine Salon arguing that “even though it’s a...