Originally published November 16, 2022, at Dissident Mama.
Valerie Protopapas of New York is a prolific and unreconstructed defender of Southern history, the world authority on the great Confederate partisan John Singleton Mosby, and is former editor of The Southern Cavalry Review, the journal of The Stuart-Mosby Historical Society. In her compelling story-telling style, Protopapas offers up myth-busting facts on “The Gray Ghost,” the naiveté of conservatives, the “lost cause,” the disunited states and its associated madness, transatlanticism, the Titanic, Orthodoxy, and other topics spun into fiction by the cultural genociders and the useful idiots.
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Some links relevant to our conversation:
• Protopapas’s bold essays at the Abbeville Institute and Reckonin’
• “Col. John Singleton Mosby: In the News 1862-1916,” her book formerly entitled “A Thousand Points of Truth”
• “Searching for Lincoln,” the documentary to which Protopapas contributed
• “The Gray Ghost,” the short-lived 1950s TV series that sparked her interest in Mosby
• Orthodox Christians for Life, which she co-founded with her husband Deacon John
• “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future” by Fr. Seraphim Rose
• “Antichrist and the Green Prince” by John D. Christian
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 hope other of our contributors and readers will listen to this podcast with as much interest as I did. Mrs. Protopapas’s northern accent reminded me of Estelle Getty’s character – Sophia – on that old t.v. sitcom from days gone by, The Golden Girls. Not only her accent, indeed, but her feistiness as well.
I tend to be one of those people who think that if you make a podcast that goes over one hour in length, you’re simply dismantling everything you worked to establish in the first hour every minute you “blather on” in the second. But not with this podcast! I would have been perfectly happy and content to listen to a third hour of this podcast featuring this wonderful New York woman.
I didn’t agree with everything she said, but I did in fact agree with most of what she said. I cannot recommend it enough! Excellent job, Dissident Mama, you continue to amaze.
My dear Sir, I wonder after all of your wonderful comments if I can adopt you? God knows, most of what comes my way is more in the nature of effluvia than accolades! Needless to say, I appreciate any kind words that come my way and especially from someone who holds (most) of my opinions! Of course, anyone who agreed with me 100% of the time would bear watching! 😀
Terry, I’m thrilled you enjoyed the conversation, and I absolutely love your spot-on Sophia assessment of dear Val. If you’d be willing to share these thoughts in the comments over on my site, I bet she’ll reply, which she has already done with one gentleman.
Also, thanks a million for your kind words regarding my work. I almost gave up on the whole DM “enterprise” over the summer, so your encouragement is greatly appreciated.
Cheers!
We must make Benjamin Franklin’s motto our own: “If we do not hang together, we shall certainly all hang separately.”