Marriage and Revolution
Here’s a brief history lesson on divorce and revolution in the United States and France from Andrew Cherlin’s The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and […]
Yankee Question
Yankee Pride
This Yankee in California is fed up with illegal immigration: Note: A new Gallup poll shows that the number of Americans who say that illegal […]
Communist Pete Seeger Is Dead
New York Here’s some good news. Note: This is from Seeger’s Wikipedia biography, “Seeger was born at the French Hospital, Midtown Manhattan. His Yankee-Protestant family, […]
Abolition and Racial Equality
New England Here’s an excerpt below from Paul Goodman’s Of One Blood: Abolitionism and the Origins of Racial Equality. I’m really enjoying this book. There […]
Of One Blood: Abolition and the Origins of Racial Equality
New England My copy arrived this afternoon:
Interview: Did Abolitionist Hatred of the South Cause the Civil War?
PJMedia Here’s an interview with Thomas Fleming on his new book, Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of Why We Fought the Civil […]
Bicausalism Type B: The Immigration Act of 1965
District of Corruption Kevin MacDonald writes: “Sorry, but I have to go with Joe on this one—probably the only area I would prefer Biden’s views […]
Bicausalism Type B
Alabama Here’s a brief explanation of why I lean toward “Bicausalism Type B”: The short answer is Southern history. Jews have always lived in the […]
Sheldon Whitehouse on Oklahoma Tornadoes
Oklahoma Here’s the latest from Dr. Yankeestein:
Review: Dividing Lines (Birmingham)
Alabama Exactly 50 years ago, the Birmingham business community surrendered to integration as a result of pressure from the federal government and negative media publicity […]
Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!
Daily Beast The South is guilty of obstructing their progress: without the Southern states, the Glorious Union would be an interracial paradise free of guns […]