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Jack Trotter writes from Charleston, South Carolina.
America was from its inception a Faustian bargain, an attempt to recreate Eden on Earth, according to Andrew Nelson Lytle. He foresaw that what the American industrial era would create would be grotesque and inhuman.
Booker T. Washington argued Southern blacks should pursue the dignity of useful labor and become indispensable members of their communities. He has been pilloried by the black intelligentsia for his efforts.
Among all the monuments that have been toppled in our recent iconoclastic mania, the Calhoun Monument is one which stood out as an attack, not so much on a particular man, but on an idea: states’ rights, and the concomitant right of secession.
Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence remains a classic of American political thought and rhetoric. It was intended in part as a sequel to the better-known I’ll Take My Stand
Paul Gottfried reads Aristotle's Politics and Jack Trotter reads the Southern Agrarian manifesto, Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence
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