Abbeville Institute

A review of ‘Tis Not Our War: Avoiding Military Service in the Civil War North (Stackpole Books, 2024) by Paul Taylor Since the infamous 2020 “Summer of Love” riots and political escapades that resulted in a new wave of Confederate iconoclasm, Americans have reconsidered including Confederate heroes as worthy company in Memorial Day celebrations. This is ironic...

Social media has exploded in recent weeks with outrage over the approval of massive corporate data centers. While local residents have overwhelmingly opposed these projects, county commissioners and state legislators have turned a blind eye. Incidents like this fuel a growing sensation that events and institutions are accelerating completely beyond the control of ordinary citize...

Let’s consider a man who falls in love with a woman, and proposes to her that they enter the union of matrimony. Things go well until he discovers that she is transferring his wealth to her brothers and other family members. He remains in the marriage, but the final straw comes when he learns that she is even trying to...

What would you call it if you created a band with Buck Owens, Don Rich, Duane Allman, Gram Parsons, Clarence White of The Byrds, and Jerry Garcia of The Grateful Dead? Daniel Donato of Nashville calls it Cosmic Country, and it might be the most intriguing thing you’ve heard in a long time. Daniel Donato is one of the more...

A Review of Wendell Berry’s Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story by Randall Ivey I have never worked on a farm.  My paternal grandparents did.  They were cotton farmers and dabbled some in tobacco, although their chief means of subsistence was work in the textile plants that used to occupy the South Carolina upcountry like kudzu. I have gotten...