Exposition Southerners are often thought of--and often thought of themselves--as having been the conservatives in the American sectional conflict, desiring to preserve traditional modes of life against the innovative Northerners. But, of course, things in the...
Civil War
Shelby Foote’s Keats
In the first chapter of his novel Shiloh, Shelby Foote has Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe of New Orleans say the following about his thoughts while falling asleep on the eve of battle: I had thought I wouldnt sleep. It seemed I ought to make some sort of reckoning, to...
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Paradox of Politics
A couple of weeks ago, President Biden announced that he was at last going to put the massive and seemingly unlimited powers of the federal bureaucracy to work in a direct assault on vaccine hesitancy, essentially mandating that all workers at companies of over 100...