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January 2025

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I Ain’t Apologizing

Jon Harris has been affiliated with the Abbeville Institute for nearly a decade. He was one of our Summer School students, has been responsible for some of our video work, and was the editor and producer of our 1607 Project documentary. He hosts the popular YouTube channel Conversations That Matter and published two books on social justice and Christianity. He…
Abbeville Institute
January 3, 2025
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The Danger Still Not Over

In October 1801, Virginia’s great revolutionary and jurist Edmund Pendleton addressed a public excited about the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency.  At eighty years old, this senior statesman offered thoughts on the election and the future of the United States.  Pendleton’s bona fides were well known: member of the Continental Congress, first speaker of Virginia’s House of Delegates,…
William J. Watkins
January 2, 2025
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Crossing the River With My RC

When I was a young boy, circa six or seven, there were no monstrous interstate highways slashing across the land. The land was beautiful, or as I probably thought, at the time, natural. Interstate highways are about as natural as was Sherman’s march through Georgia. They are federal (Yankee) spending, creating great slashes through private property (eminent domain is Grendel;…
Paul H. Yarbrough
January 1, 2025