Southern History Month 2019: Liberty: Its True Meaning In The Backcountry
In the Backcountry, the meaning of liberty was symbolized by the rattlesnake. It meant leave me alone
History
Southern History Month 2019: The Impoverishment of Appalachia
In the antebellum era, Appalachia had an economy on par with the rest of the South, but after the War Between the States it was ruthlessly exploited by Northern capitalists
Southern History Month 2019: Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Manufacturing Job Losses Since WTO and NAFTA
The economic impact of free-trade on Southern manufacturing since the passage of NAFTA and the WTO
Travelogue: Journey To Excelsior Springs
How our trip to see the home of Jesse James was cut short
Southern History Month 2019: Little Dixie
The Missouri River Valley was settled by Southerners like Jesse James who was the first to “Secure the Bag”
Southern History Month 2019: The Railroad Trust of The New South
In the early 20th century, a privately owned railroad network under free-market capitalism kept the Southern economy in thrall to Northern Robber Barons
Southern History Month 2019: The Great Revolt of the Rednecks
In the Mississippi of the 1890s, populists began to revolt against the conservative Bourbon Democrats, and eventually elected Gov. James K. Vardaman as their “Great White Chief.” He later became a US Senator from Mississippi
Easter 2019
We are living in the moral ruins of a great civilization
Hitler’s Birthday
Adolf Hitler is 130 years old today!
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Parks
In the 20th century, Southerners built national and state parks to conserve our environment and to allow everyone to enjoy nature, which wasn’t possible under the previous system
Southern History Month 2019: Top 15 Species Lolbertarians Hate
A stroll through history and the ecological devastation caused by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Georgia’s Providence Canyon
Southwest Georgia has its own miniature version of the Grand Canyon
Judeo-Christianity Is a Boomer Religion
Christian Zionism is a weird American cult
Southern History Month 2019: The Dust Bowl, Soil Erosion, Okies
The Green New Deal was actually a response to massive soil erosion
Southern History Month 2019: Sharecropping
Sharecropping in the South was abolished in a generation by technology and investment
Christians Haven’t Always Been Mewling “Judeo-Christian” Pacifists
The Holy War of the Crusades raged as Notre Dame was built in France
Southern History Month 2019: Mechanization
Technology and investment abolished sharecropping in the South
The Great Plantation: A Better Paradigm
We need a better vision and paradigm of how to fix the South
Kevin Williamson: The Division of Labor Is the Meaning of Life
Now he is getting somewhere
Southern History Month 2019: NASA
Do you remember the time we went to the moon?
Stripe Deplatforms Occidental Dissent
Literally can’t explain why as we don’t advocate either violence or war
Southern History Month 2019: Southern and Alabama Agriculture, 1860-1870
In aftermath of the Civil War, the Northern ideology of free-markets, free-labor, free men and free society triumphed in the American South, and this was the result
Midwestern History Month 2019: Senator George Norris
Nebraska desperately needs a US senator to do some “adulting”
Steve Goldstein: White Nationalists Are Embracing The Classics
The “Far Right” is embracing its roots in Western civilization
TAC: The Not-So-New Populism
A great synopsis of the rise of national populism
Southern History Month 2019: Huey “The Kingfish” Long
Every man a king
The South Reconciled Tradition With Progress
Why is progress opposed to tradition?
The Japanese Miracle
In the aftermath of the Second World War, free market theorists advised the Japanese to develop their comparative advantage in seafood
Southern History Month 2019: Wigfall vs. De Bow: Two Views of Southern Economic Independence
James D.B. De Bow was a Southern economic nationalist
Southern History Month 2019: The Time John Rankin Gave M. Michael Edelstein a Heart Attack
John Rankin triggered E. Michael Edelstein to the point that he collapsed and died on the floor of Congress
Southern History Month 2019: The Southern Progressive Era
A look back to a very different South