We read that after changing the name of Lake Calhoun to the much “better option” of Bde Maka Ska (that simply rolls off of one’s tongue), the city is now exploring ways to expunge the…
The “positive good” speech of February 6, 1837, is vintage Calhoun, an exercise of his conception of the proper role of a statesmen placed in the highest deliberative body of the Union. That role was…
Dr. Brion McClanahan of the Abbeville Institute discusses John C. Calhoun, and how historians consistently get Calhoun wrong. Click to listen
Stone Washington, a Clemson student, opines in The College Fix about the minor to-do related to some students and faculty petitioning to remove Calhoun’s name from Clemson’s honors college. When I hear the name Calhoun,…
In what became the United States, servitude of people of the black African race existed for about two and a half centuries. The subject of American slavery is today so entertwined with unhealthy and present-centered…
John C. Culhoon. Culhoon is the right pronunciation by the way. John C. Culhoon was an upcountryman. We, upcountry people, tend to suspect Charlestonians, like Dr. Fleming, of being somewhat haughty and dissipated. Calhoun studied…
According to local news stories, more than 200 students and Clemson alumni have petitioned to have Calhoun’s name removed from the Calhoun Honors College at Clemson University. With an enrollment of over 23,000 students and…
Briain now faces an existential crisis greater than any she has faced since 1940. In fact, it is not hyperbole to state that the entire future of Europe rests on what occurs over the next two…
The Calhoun Institute was formed and created, as a non-profit corporation in South Carolina dedicated to the purpose of enhancing scholarship, education and critical thinking related to matters of first principles. Our secondary purpose is…
The notion of limiting civil asset forfeiture is good and noble. In the United States, we have essentially no independent mechanism by which the people might limit the scope and breadth of police actions. The law…
