The Brion McClanahan Show Podcast

“Presidents Day” is here again. Time to grab a sofa or some other piece of furniture and reflect on the blessings of the imperial presidency. Or not. Of course, “Presidents Day” does not officially exist, though some States have adopted that language. It makes it easy to lump all of the criminals into one batch and impeach the lot. Many people have asked me who …more

The Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan dust up is just another example in a long line of Yankee stupidity in American history. No one really cares about Neil Young, but Young is the personification of the secular Puritan: my “city upon a hill” is being threatened by your words, so they must go. Kenneth LaFave chalked this up to one of the baby boomer brats …more

D list celebrity Ron Perlman thinks its time for a divorce. The actor recently had the epiphany that perhaps separation would be better than forcing other people to bend to his will. This is the man who has consistently and viciously attacked anyone on the right on social media as being a Nazi or some other slogan or platitude he learned on Twitter. Perlman is …more

Did the British cause the War for Southern Independence? Richard Poe at LewRockwell.com has argued yes. In a thought provoking piece, Poe details how years of British interest in Southern raw materials fostered Southern dependence on foreign markets. This argument is not new. Poe is viewing the War from a macro rather than micro perspective and doing so inevitably leads to economic determinism. I can …more

Yesterday I covered James Fenimore Cooper’s discussion “On Equality.” This is a devastating chapter for the woke minions running American society. If more people read it, they would walk away with a different understanding of the term. The same can be said for the next chapter in the book, “On American Equality,” an “equally” devastating critique of the misuse and distortion of the term by …more

No word in the American political lexicon incites as much conflict as “equality.” Is the United States based on the “proposition” that “all men are created equal”? Are “equality” and “democracy” inextricably linked? These are pressing questions and in some respects key battle lines between both the left and right and the right and “right.” Consider the longstanding debate between Harry Jaffa and Mel Bradford …more

A long time listener of the program sent me an email asking me to define the term “Yankee.” He hosts a group of around ten men that regularly listen to the show. Some of them became agitated when I recently used Yankee to disparage a particular type of American. They were offended ostensibly because they are from the North. He thought if I clarified by …more

Were Confederates “evil”? Wayne Allyn Root seems to think so. In fact, if you didn’t know better, you would believe Eric Foner, Karen Cox, or some other leftist dope wrote this piece. This is a problem I have been discussing for quite some time on my podcast and elsewhere. With “friends” like these “conservative intellectuals,” who needs the left? I rightfully blasted the Straussian/neocons in …more

Meet Karen Cox, Activist at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her biography reads “Professor” and “Historian” but those descriptions don’t apply. Cox is the personification of the current historical profession. She has no integrity, makes up straw man fallacies to suit her political positions, and cherry picks information to defend her predetermined narratives. In other words, she isn’t an historian. Historians seek to understand, …more

Meet Laura Fairchild Brodie, visiting Professor of English at Washington and Lee University. Professor Brodie has created quite a stir with a recent publication for Harvard Magazine titled “Harvard and the Cult of Robert E. Lee.” You probably can already guess where she takes the story. A bunch of racists at Harvard, notably Charles F. Adams, admired Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy because they …more