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Southing: The South’s Gonna Do It Again
An uncharacteristic piece of optimism from the Southern Partisan in 1982, slightly edited and revised.
As You Like (Or Don’t) Like It
We are planing to film a series of book discussions on the theme, The Uses of Diversity, that is, on how people and societies respond to adversity.
Southing: On Real Liberty
This is a slightly edited and corrected verisio of a piece that appeared in The Southern Partisan in 1982.
Laying The Ghosts of Southern Nationalism
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
Charity Begins at Home
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
Game Plans
In a podcast of January 14, I was asked if Trump could actually accomplish some good for the American people. Partly joking, I answered:
Request Help
For over a decade I have been working on a lecture series about the mind of the ancient Greeks. I have gone through several titles–The Greek Mind, The Greek Conservative Mind, The Aboriginal Greeks–and have not yet settled on one of them.
The Burning of Los Angeles
Looking at photographs and watching video of Los Angeles on fire, I could not help thinking of Nathaniel West’s 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust.
Greek I, Chapter 2
This chapter continues the presentation of O-declension nouns, with particular attention to accents.