SNN Podcast: The Rise of the New South
South Carolina Here’s the link to the SNN podcast with Palmetto Patriot about my review of James C. Cobb’s The South and America Since World […]
Economy
Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Dixie The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry is Volume 11 of a 24 part series sponsored by the Center for the Study of […]
Mississippi: The Color of EBT
Mississippi Here’s another excerpt from Chuck Thompson’s Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession which is part of a roundtable discussion on […]
Republic of Dixie: Livestock and Crops
Dixie In terms of chicken broilers, chicken eggs, rice, and cotton among other things, the South disproportionately contributes to American agriculture. Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, and […]
Catalonia’s Precedent for Texas
Spain In spite of the media spin, the bottom line coming out of Catalonia’s elections is that the four separatist parties won a clear majority […]
Catalonia Goes To The Polls
Spain The Spanish state of Catalonia is holding elections on Sunday which are expected to return a strong pro-independence majority in the Catalan regional parliament: […]
Slavery Myths: Life Expectancy
American South Here’s the average life expectancy at birth for American slaves in 1850 compared to the life expectancy of various “free” populations around the […]
Slavery Myths: Refuting Hinton Helper
American South Here’s an excellent excerpt from Time on the Cross: The Economics of Negro Slavery which eviscerates the economic argument for the abolition of […]
The Modernization of Slavery
CSA, 1890 AD Andrew Hamilton has another excellent article on the Confederacy at Counter-Currents. While I mostly agree with his conclusions, I want to use […]
Slavery: Demolishing The Yankee Stereotypes
Confederate States of America My copy of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman’s Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery arrived this morning. […]
Caribbean Project: Review: The Mighty Experiment
Great Britain Seymour Drescher’s The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation is an attempt to understand the abolition of slavery in the […]
Caribbean Project: Free Labor Jamaica vs. Slave Labor Cuba
British West Indies In Caribbean Project: Review: Slave Society in Cuba During the Nineteenth Century, we saw how the abolition of slavery in Haiti (1794) […]
Linder on Slavery
VNN Forum Alex Linder writes: “It’s one thing to make intellectual arguments for slavery, that’s worth doing for a number of reasons, but it is […]
The Province of Freedom: Free Labor vs. Slave Labor in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone As Stephen Drescher observes in The Mighty Experiment, the total failure of free society in Sierra Leone, a free labor colony in West […]
Caribbean Project: Adam Smith, Free Labor, Slavery
British West Indies This is getting good. If the free labor system was so superior to slavery, as Adam Smith argued in The Wealth of […]
Outsourcing Is America At Its Best
Forbes I knew this guy sounded familiar … scanning my bookshelf, I spotted his name on a copy of The Ayn Rand Lexicon. “Mitt Romney […]
The Cost of the Union: Obamacare: Healthcare for Blacks and Hispanics
District of Corruption The Obama administration is not even trying to hide the fact that it is taxing White households to spend money on healthcare […]
Amurrica Series: Obama Creating African-American Education Office
District of Corruption I hear it will tentatively be titled … The Mentally Retarded Education Department. “WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is creating a […]
Straight Outta Compton
California Maybe they will rap about bankruptcy now? “COMPTON (CBS) — The city of Compton is reportedly facing bankruptcy following an announcement at a City […]
Romney’s Chance to Embrace Outsourcing
National Review Here’s the latest from the VIPs (Valuable Intellectual Properties) over at National Review: “There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Milton Friedman was […]
Recession Anxiety
BRA’s Economy BRA’s Recovery looks increasingly poised to keel over and take the plunge into a double dip recession.
Limits To Growth: California’s Dysfunctional Political System
California H/T Walter Russell Mead While there are geological limits to growth (such as Peak Water in Saudi Arabia), OD has always been fascinated by […]
Limits To Growth: Neo-Slavery
Malthusian World As I mentioned in the comments, Richard Heinberg speculates that slavery might be restored in his book Peak Everything: “In the U.S., as […]
Limits To Growth: 3 Trillion Barrels of Oil
Canada How do you know American policymakers are asleep at the helm on the energy question? “While the chattering classes yammered on about American decline […]
Limits To Growth: Mining Asteroids
New York In The Wall Street Journal, there is a new techno-utopian article about mining asteroids as a solution to resource scarcity: “Is the earth […]
Limits To Growth: Review: Too Much Magic
New York I’ve finished reading James Howard Kunstler’s new book Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation. This book is pretty […]
“Up With Chris Hayes”
New York In spite of all our differences, I am confident that everyone who reads and comments on this website can agree on how satisfying […]
The Export Crisis
BRA IMO, this will be much more effective than state based immigration laws anyway. We have already seen that the biggest deterrent to illegal immigration […]
The 2008 Economic Collapse
BRA Here’s an excerpt from Kunstler’s new book: “It was not a coincidence that the global financial system wobbled and crashed in mid-2008, the same […]
Prophets of Doom
History Channel Kunstler mentioned that he appeared on this program in the book. I haven’t seen this before. Watching now. Note: The water crisis is […]
Kunstler’s New Book
Africa Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation … I’ve been reading a Kindle sample, and this is some dark […]
Free Trade: Vox Day vs. Gary North
United States The best debate going on at the moment: “To address North’s conceptual problem, a man with a badge and a gun and a […]