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...

Looking for Lincoln

by | Aug 13, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

At the Australian embassy in Washington, DC, last month, I asked Kim Beazley if he had had the chance to indulge his fascination with Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War while serving as Australia’s ambassador to the US. “The Civil War is seminal to the...

News from Around the South 8/5 – 8/12

by | Aug 12, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Virginia: Confederate Flag to be flown by I-95 A Confederate heritage group has announced plans to fly a Confederate Flag on I-95, the main highway running the length of the East Coast. The group Virginia Flaggers said that the Confederate Flag would be flown just...

Books: Matthew Brady's Portaits

by | Aug 8, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

Although “Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation” is billed as a biography, it actually reads as a by-now familiar story of technological innovation and entrepreneurship, parallel in an eerie way to the communication revolution we are experiencing in this...

News from Around the South 7/22 – 7/29

by | Jul 29, 2013 | Archive, Southern Partisan

  Virginia: Confederate Marine Re-enactors Join Appomattox Show APPOMATTOX, Va. — Friday evening’s wind blew, catching the Confederate Marine flag at the head of a recreated Civil War campsite and whipping it about. The six tents surrounding the flag were...