My thoughts on My Antonia by Willa Cather. A favorite author! The University Bookman Russell Kirk Center Dan Hugger John J. Miller Intercollegiate Studies Institute theimaginativeconservative.org/2025/08/my-ant…

Bags are unpacked, beds are made, books are purchased, and hundreds of goodbye hugs were given. The freshman class is ready to take on their first year as Hillsdale College students. Welcome to the Class of 2029!

This river is my life's blood, it flows through my dreams, this river is, in a real way, my mother.

Some of us never stopped

Good word, particularly on the tendency among Evangelicals and those adjacent to them in our province who don’t make important law gospel distinctions. Very glad my rector jadykoch does law gospel preaching. It’s not just a Lutheran thing. It’s an Anglican heritage as well.

Miles Smith IV, did you see this? Pretty cool.

Apparently the Wikipedia guy is going Anglican?! How did I miss this?!

One thing I wish I could get across to students about the antebellum South is that the sort of Cracker Barrel backcountry rusticity so many people associate with it co-existed with an intensely cosmopolitan aristocracy in places like the South Carolina Lowcountry.

Me and the boys tomorrow night watching 17 college football games

"Puritanism created principles of justice and individuality so convincing that generations of “enlightened” scoffers would assume they were 'self-evident.'" John B. Carpenter thevitalcenter.com/summer-2025/if…

Miles Smith IV Francis Lieber working as a big shot German intellectual in Columbia (SC) is still pretty wild to me.

Miles Smith IV This is actually incredible indicative of how the South functions as a mythic space in the American psyche, and has done that for at least 200 years--whatever the realities of the place.

jadykoch wrote an entire PhD thesis on law/gospel distinction. He’s an true servant of the Word.

An Anglo-Irish MP arrived in Richmond at the very end of the Civil War and observed a day of fasting ordered by Jefferson Davis by--according to Amanda Foreman--confining himself to "muffins for tea, followed by oysters and cocktails."

Everyone makes mistakes in books so Im not throwing stones but geographic ones I admit annoy me. Reading a legit good book that says Danville is 40 miles away from Richmond. Danville is 125 miles away from Richmond...

I have never seen this British homage in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination. Particularly moving.

He teaches social media marketing and this was a demonstration of how to go viral. Give him a raise.

"... a must read for all readers interested in leadership, history, and warfare!" David Petraeus cup.org/40nU3C2 #SecondWorldWar #MilitaryHistory

Miles Smith IV The best way to describe cracker barrel's business history is 'Snopesian'. The best way to understand it as a Southern economic phenomenon is to read Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.