We’ve all seen the term “Karen” used to describe a modern busybody. But is that the proper term to use? No. “Karens” are a byproduct of a particular type of American culture. I’ll give you a hint. It begins with Y and ends with E. I discuss in this episode of the Brion McClanahan Show.
Glenn Beck wants to restore the American covenant, whatever that means. He spent over two hours on July 4 giving a fake American history lesson, complete with every nationalist and New England centered myth you could imagine. I watched it so you didn’t have to, and I talk about it in this Episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.
Karl Rove didn’t like a couple of recent Donald Trump Tweets. McClanahan, why is this news? Because Karl Rove is now “advising” Donald Trump. Herein lies the problem with Trump and explains why his “heroes” are acceptable to the establishment Republican Party. They gave him the list. And they don’t want anyone talking about the culture war. I “unpack” Karl Rove’s anti-Trump comments in this …more
Can States mandate how electors vote for the president? The Supreme Court just said yes, and I agree, but like Clarence Thomas, I disagree with the majority opinion. Why? I explain in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.
Donald Trump has ordered that the United States government build a “National Garden to American Heroes” complete with new monuments to what he and other neoconservatives consider to be the greatest people in American history, like Christa McAuliffe. Nothing screams American hero like Christa McAuliffe. Not that her death was not a tragic reminder of the danger of space exploration, but Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, …more
F.H. Buckley’s book on secession is a welcome and timely addition to the modern conversation on secession. This would have been a forbidden topic just 15 years ago, but with the current madness in American society, Buckley is wondering why and how secession could work in the 21st century. This is think locally, act locally on steroids.
Rich Lowry and Tim Kaine are not often lumped together. They should be. The “conservative” editor of National Review and the United States Senator from Virginia are both two idiot peas in a pod. Lowry doesn’t think that taking down Confederate monuments or symbols will lead to anything other than a recognition of national greatness American imperialism while Kaine somehow believes Americans invented slavery. Right. …more
National Review writer and native Brit Cameron Hilditch thinks Confederate symbols should be erased from American society. Why? Because they are “Un-American.” That’s right. National Review, a “conservative” publication, thinks getting rid of Confederate symbols would be a good thing because those guys were not really Americans. You can’t make up this kind of stupid, but with friends like these, who needs Mother Jones or …more
Are we in for another revolution in America? The first “revolution” between 1775-1783 didn’t change much in American society. The second, 1861-1877, set in motion the third. In fact, this has been one long war without much of a break since 1861. The current pogrom against all things Confederate isn’t really about the Confederacy but our “national” culture war. I explain in this episode of …more
This might sound like something out of the Left-wing anti-Trump playbook, but I have been railing against nationalism longer than Trump’s been in office. Nationalism has always been the great antithesis of the American political system, and the twin “crises” of COVID and George Floyd have exposed this, again. I discuss in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.
Most Americans recognize a few of the Founding Fathers—Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin—but what about some of the important but forgotten men who have been lost to time? They have great stories that need to be told. Here are ten whose fantastic lives are in many ways better than fiction.
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