Originally published May 30, 2020, at DissidentMama.net.
Dr. Donald Livingston is co-founder of the Abbeville Institute and Professor Retired of Philosophy at Emory University. Livingston received his doctorate at Washington University in 1965 and has been a fellow for the National Endowment Independent Studies and the Institute of Advanced Studies in the humanities at the University of Edinborough. He has served on the editorial board of Hume Studies and Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
Livingston’s books include “Hume’s Philosophy of Common Life” and “Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium.” He contributed to and edited “Rethinking the American Union for the 21st Century” and is currently finishing up the book “Why Some Americans Need To Believe the War Was About Slavery and Why America is Again Coming Apart Today.”
It was a tremendous honor to interview Dr. Livingston, who is both a humble gentleman and a brilliant stalwart for truth. In our talk, he discusses Southern tradition, secession, the myth of equality, how the War wasn’t about slavery, faith, and much more. I pray you all will learn from Livingston, just as I always do.
Other books mentioned in the podcast include “North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era,” “Nullification and Secession In Modern Constitutional Thought,” and “Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of Independence.”
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Truth warrior, Jesus follower, wife, and boymom. Apologetics practitioner for Orthodox Christianity, the Southern tradition, homeschooling, and freedom. Recovering feminist-socialist-atheist, graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and retired mainstream journalist turned domesticated belle and rabble-rousing rhetorician. You can read her blog at Dissident Mama.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you. Very interesting about the assault on language and the different versions of dictionaries. As I plan to home school my two lads, I’ll definitely keep this in mind. Maybe I’ll perform a similar analysis on the dictionaries we have here in the UK.
In fact, I noticed that my (probably about ten years old) copy of Collin’s English Dictionary, now comes with little ‘warnings’ next to naughty words that one mustn’t say. Not sure if older dictionaries did this… seems very much a modern, liberal addition. Not that it surprises me, the sorts of people who compile dictionaries probably don’t share my traditional/conservative sympathies.
Thanks for sharing things like this. As for the previous comment about homeschooling it reminds me of how despite us being who fought for the ability to homeschool for decades we do not have a Southern curriculum. Why? Most of the boomers that would have made the war about the holohoax and God’s chosen people, being sure to mention they are not racists on every other page are gone now. So why don’t we have a Southern curriculum yet and how do we go about getting one that’s not cucked now that most of the obstacles are gone from within?