The Brion McClanahan Show Podcast

If you listen to the neoconservatives like Allen Guelzo or the talking stiffs at Fox News, the North heroically saved the United States from the evil South and ushered in a new birth of freedom in America. Guelzo goes so far as to thump his chest and proclaim that he is a Yankee of the highest order, meaning that he carries no guilt for the …more

Over the weekend, woke leftist “scholar” Nikole Hannah-Jones made some comments about the atomic weapons strike on Japan in 1945. She said felt “shame” when visiting Hiroshima and thought of the “fascism” in the American South. When some people challenged her, she wrote this: Her stupidity is boundless, but this brings up an interesting historical debate. Did the bomb end the war in the Pacific? …more

Leftist legal scholar Saul Cornell has made a career on the Second Amendment. His claim to fame comes from several articles and one major book on the origins of the right to “keep and bear arms.” Most important, Cornell thinks that this right can be limited by government, and that the history of firearms possession in England and Great Britain supports his claim. Cornell is …more

A listener asked me to name the best book on the Revolution of 1800. If you don’t know what I am talking about, this was Jefferson’s victory–and a Republican sweep–in the 1800 election. The Federalists were sent packing and the Republicans took power. It has been described as a bloodless revolution, as nothing short of the 1688 Glorious Revolution in England. That “revolution” was bloodless, …more

Asking if voting is a right is almost blasphemy in modern American society. We believe in democracy! Everyone should vote! But as a great piece at Chronicles highlights, you can make it “easy to vote” OR you can make it “hard to cheat.” You can’t have both. To those on the left, making it “easy” to vote means that they can ballot harvest or dig …more

Glenn Youngkin’s victory in the Virginia Governor’s race has spurred some to believe that Americans have thoroughly rejected critical race theory. Not so fast. While I agree that wokism may have reached its zenith and most Americans don’t like it, I’m not certain the soccer moms who have been labeled FBI terrorists aren’t on board with most of what critical race theory has to offer. …more

Breaking up should be easy to do, even for States. That is, of course, if Americans truly believed in self-determination. Most don’t. Couple that with the perception among some “conservatives” that secession is just a Leninist plot to destroy America and it’s really surprising that nearly a quarter of Americans think that a political divorce would be a good thing. It doesn’t mean we can …more

You aren’t conserving anything if you think Abraham Lincoln was a conservative. Or Frederick Douglass. Or Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Or Martin Luther King. Or frankly any Republican from the 1850s through the 1870s. Even after that is questionable. But that’s exactly what the modern conservative establishment wants to dupe the rest of American into believing. You see, all of these Republicans–King wasn’t a Republican no …more

It’s been a couple of weeks since you’ve heard from me. That’s bad. You will be hearing from me more often in the coming weeks, particularly if you are a subscriber to McClanahan Academy. That’s good. I haven’t stopped producing The Brion McClanahan Show. You can get it on all major podcast platforms. Just search for it wherever you get podcasts and subscribe, and once …more

A high school history teacher asked me this question: How do you teach Andrew Jackson, but more importantly, how do you incorporate John C. Calhoun into a unit on Andrew Jackson? I love answering these types of questions. I have already prepackaged my “Jacksonian America” lecture at McClanahan Academy, so if you want my full spin on the topic, get that class. Jackson is a …more