History is a bit like Otto von Bismarck’s famous line about sausages and laws, which, he said, no one should watch being made. Think of all the people you’ve seen in pictures and statues or on coins and currency. Consider…
It was Margaret Thatcher who first popularized the saying that “the facts of life are conservative,” but that perspective has been around through the ages. It’s axiomatic, as conservatism’s very name implies the conservation of things that are known to…
No more shall the war cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red; They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment-day, Love and tears for the…
On Thursday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced that plans are underway to remove the large statue of Robert E. Lee from its prominent position on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, where it has stood for well over a century. The governor’s decision…
On Sunday evening, demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd defaced and toppled a statue of Confederate officer Charles Linn, which had stood in a public park in Birmingham, Alabama, since being installed in 2013 by a charity. The destruction…
Texas novelist William Humphrey revealed how Confederate statues animate the Southern tradition: “If the Civil War is more alive to the Southerner than the Northerner it is because all of the past is, and this is so because the Southerner has a…
Some people look at Michael Bennett, the defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks who is now kneeling during the national anthem, and see someone who is heroic. Others look at the people working to remove Confederate statues from public parks…
There’s no way to account for the current hysteria over Confederate statuary other than it’s a ginned up campaign by the political and cultural left to keep black voters on the Democrat plantation. And to advance the false narrative that…
In a wild press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump doubled-down on his decision to criticize “both sides” of the violent Charlottesville, Virginia, protests and suggested some of the protesters attempting to save the city’s statue of Confederate General Robert…
Now for a few words about the Confederate statues contretemps in various states. 1. I wonder how many of the counter-protesters at the Charlottesville event even had any idea who Robert E. Lee was. He was a major hero of…
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