Tag: Civil War

Southern Jacobins?: A Historical Fugue

E.J. Hutchinson — April 30, 2024

Southern Jacobins?: A Historical Fugue

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.…

Shelby Foote’s Keats

E.J. Hutchinson — April 4, 2024

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…

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and the Paradox of Politics

Brad Littlejohn — September 20, 2021

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…