Boyd D. Cathey

Boyd D. Cathey, a retired state registrar of the North Carolina State Archives, is both a former Richard Weaver Fellow and a former Thomas Jefferson Fellow. He blogs at boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com.

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Blog

May 25, 2020

Observing a Special Memorial Day

Some 75 years later, I’ve decided to search out any living members of the family of my father’s wartime buddy Dale. I located Stephen Dale Lackey—the son that Dale would never see.
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Blog

February 4, 2019

Virginia Governor Northam, Racism, and the Gadarene Swine of 2019

You would have thought Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph Northam had been a co-conspirator in the assassination of Martin Luther King, given the reaction to what appeared to be a page in his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook.
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Blog

November 19, 2018

Who is Really Responsible for Political Violence?

For the past year or so . . . the mainstream media, including many of the supposed conservative commentators at Fox, have been all a-twitter with demands that President Trump “lower the volume.”
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Correspondence

November 2018

From Silent Sam to Screaming Selfies

In the wake of the August 20 toppling of Silent Sam, a monument to North Carolina students who volunteered to become Confederate soldiers in 1861-65, our television screens were filled with images of scraggly, rough-bearded Millennial men and unkempt women screaming profanities and shouting imprecations about racism, white supremacy, and the dangers of “fascism.”
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Blog

September 27, 2018

What has Happened to Masculinity in 21st Century?

The feminist movement has been and is, in effect, a rebellion against the laws of Nature and also against the very teachings and beliefs of historic Christianity.
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Blog

May 23, 2018

That Royal Wedding, Reverend Michael Curry, and the End of England

Our world is perishing for the lack of heroes, for the lack of those Don Juans of Austria, for those new and courageous Stonewall Jacksons and for kings like John Sobieski or St. Louis of France, who would stand manfully against the onrushing tide of Modernity and decay in our civilization.
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Society & Culture

June 2018

Cultural Marxists and the Stranglehold of “Race”

One of the subjects that most self-styled conservatives seem incapable of discussing in any depth—indeed, it is one they often flee from like mice before the hungry house cat—is race.
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