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  • Features
    • Clyde Wilson CLASSICS
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    • Charlottesville
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    • Dixie These Days
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    • Magnolia Muse
    • Matters of Faith
    • Movie Room
    • Rekindling the Flame
    • Southern History
    • Writing Contest 2022
  • Contributors
    • Full List
    • Carolina Contrarian
    • Enoch Cade
    • Dissident Mama
    • Ted Ehmann
    • Walt Garlington
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The Book Bench

Commentary, Review, and Excerpts

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CLYDE WILSON

[REVIEW] of The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies by Auron MacIntyre


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PERRIN LOVETT:

The Lightkeeper by Dr. Sherry Shenoda [REVIEW]


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PERRIN LOVETT:

[EXCERPT] A Preview of JUDGING ATHENA

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CLYDE WILSON

Getting Right With Abe

Kevin Orlin Johnson's books help to dismantle the myth of Lincoln's sainthood.

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JOE PUTNAM

​The Canebrake [BOOK EXCERPT]

Walking through a thicket of these once-prolific stalks transports the author to another era.

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JOSEPH R. STROMBERG

Thoughts on Country Music 

[BOOK EXCERPT]

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GENE KIZER

African American Slavery in Historical Perspective

​by Clyde Wilson [REVIEW]

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CLYDE WILSON

​The Paleolibertarian Guide to Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & the Aberrant Economy by Ilana Mercer

​REVIEW

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PERRIN LOVETT


​REVIEW: The Rape of Palestine by Blake Alcott


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PERRIN LOVETT

Prophecy Of A Theban Princess

A Review of FOR A RADICAL LIFE by Daria Dugina


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ILANA MERCER

The Paelolibertarian Guide to Deep Tech, Deep Pharma & The Aberrant Economy

The first book in a planned series is now available

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PERRIN LOVETT: 

Dishonest Abe’s False Alibi

A Review of NONSENSE ON STILTS By Paul Graham

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KEVIN ORLIN JOHNSON

The Deep State Assassination of Martin Luther King by John Avery Emison

[REVIEW]



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PERRIN LOVETT

The Stone House [REVIEW]



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PERRIN LOVETT: 

ORDO PLURIVERSALIS by Leonid Savin - and - 
LOOKING FOR MR. JEFFERSON by Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

​[REVIEWS]

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PERRIN LOVETT: Why the West Can't Win by Fadi Lama [REVIEW]

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 PERRIN LOVETT: Apophatic Apologetics: A Review of ESCHATOLOGICAL OPTIMISM by Daria “Platonova” Dugina

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 PERRIN LOVETT: School for Genius by Thomas Moore [REVIEW]

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​Scopes' Scoops, and Yankee Legal Brain Trusts by PAUL YARBROUGH 

A new book about the "Monkey Trial" offers a predictable spin.

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 Greg Jarrett Loathes the Christian South by WALT GARLINGTON: 

His new book Trial of the Century denigrates Southerners' religious tradition.

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The Substitute Review by CLYDE WILSON

A Southern James Bond goes to School.

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THE CONSTITUTION OF NON-STATE GOVERNMENT:
Field Guide to Texas Secession


​by T.L. Hulsey

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​PERRIN LOVETT:
LA POUDRE AUX YEUX by Justine Reix
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A new French book makes the case for environmental stewardship.

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PERRIN LOVETT: Reclaiming the Catholic Church: Book Review

A new book examines where the Vatican got off track, and what the true Church should do about it.

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PERRIN LOVETT: Teaching the Trivium: A Review

Homeschooling isn't just a good idea - it's a necessary part of Christian living.

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 CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: A Walk in the Park by Padraig Martin (Review)

A Charlottesville rally attendee provides a new perspective on Unite the Right.

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​BOYD CATHEY: Abraham Lincoln and the Ghost of Karl Marx

Review of An Unfinished Revolution by Robin Blackburn

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GENE KIZER, JR.: Charlottesville Untold: Review

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BERNHARD THUERSAM: Book Excerpt from Cultural Revolution in Russia, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick

Soviet Cultural Revolution in Education, 1928-1931

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 GENE KIZER, JR: Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule (REVIEW)

This new book is heavy on virtue-signaling, light on history.

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NEIL KUMAR: John Brown's Body
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A Review of the Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement by Otto Scott

Though Brown is long dead, his bloodthirsty spirit marches on.

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NEIL KUMAR: All That is Ugly, Broken and Foul

The Transgender Industrial Complex (REVIEW)

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BOYD CATHEY: The South Was Right: New Edition (REVIEW)

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AL BENSON: When Rebel was Cool: Review
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STEPHEN DAVIS: Richard Weaver and The Southern Tradition at Bay: An Appreciation

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The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby: A Review by David Scott

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Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home REVIEW by Brett Moffatt

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​​"The Confederate Myth Buster" by Walter D. Kennedy REVIEW by ​Al Benson

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Silverwood, the South and What's Normal Anyway? REVIEW by Walt Garlington

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“A Fatal Mercy: The Man Who Lost the Civil War” REVIEW by Al Benson

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"Back to Blood" by Tom Wolfe REVIEW by James Rutledge Roesch

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Snowflake Buddies: Song of the Real Resistance REVIEW by Dissident Mama

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The Land We Love: The South and Its Heritage by Dr. Boyd D. Cathey REVIEW by Al Benson

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Calling Out the Captains: REVIEW of Militant Normals by Kurt Schlicter and Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson REVIEW by ​Carolina Contrarian

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Two new books examine the failures of the American ruling class and the public response.

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Life in the Old Land Yet: Introducing four new books that give hope for the future of Dixie by Clyde Wilson

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​Theological Liberalism in the North: EXCERPT from Sacred Conviction: The South's Stand for Biblical Authority by Joseph Jay

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Quench the Smoldering Wick by Gordon Peter Wilson REVIEW by Paul Gottfried

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Lincoln on Race and Slavery Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Editor REVIEW by Michael Martin

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The Classical Origins of Southern Literature by Dr. James Everett Kibler REVIEW by Robert Peters

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Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel T. Francis REVIEW by Paul Gottfried

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