The Brion McClanahan Show

"Historian" Heather Cox Richardson interview Joe Biden in February about  his "historic" presidency. The result was a gaffe filled, rambling  campaign speech spurred by Richardson's wilful distortion of the past.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://learntruehistory.com

Republicans are terrified about a potential Obama run in 2024 or 2028.  Of course, it can't be Barrack, but Michelle could throw her hat into the ring. And I think she will, but not in 2024. Prediction: Michelle Obama is the 2028 Democrat nominee for president. I discuss on this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/suppor...

The 1619 Project leaves much to be desired, but so does the typical  "conservative" response to the effort. They are two sides of the same  coin and both are based on the faulty "proposition nation" myth of the  American founding. Allen Guelzo's attempt to refute the project is as  bad as the history he critiques.    https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmc...

The film Driving Ms. Daisy is a cult classic, but as Paul Gottfried  points on in a recent piece at Chronicles Magazine, it is also a woke  Trojan Horse. Northerners like it because they think it is an accurate  portrayal of the South in the 1950s. It isn't.    https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://learntruehistory.com

If you listen to the dopes in the historical establishment or follow any idiots on social media, you'll find the common argument that the Confederacy is the origin of Hitler's Germany. It should be too stupid to even have to refute, but alas, many Americans believe it, even those on the right who have become attracted to Nazism. If they are Southern, they would be repulsed by the idea. https://mcc...

The Congress and mainstream media are shocked to find fraud among over a  trillion dollars of COVID relief spending. Who couldn't see this  coming? The response to the problem is laughable.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://learntruehistory.com

Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. It was as bad as anyone expected. Here is my rapid reaction to the speech and the stupidity known as American "national" politics. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com

Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address tonight in the annual  American nod to monarchy. David Axlerod thinks he should channel Jimmy  Carter, a position that many Democratic pundits reject. Why? I discuss  his upcoming SOU on this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://learntruehist...

Since 2020. the Boomers have imposed the most restrictive mandates on  civil liberties in the last several decades, but this may come back to  haunt them. Polling shows that Americans--and other Westerners--are fed  up with this assault on freedom and are ready to throw out the ruling  parties.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support ...

Paul Gottfried has accurately described the left's strategy: divide and conquer in the name of power. The way they do it shows how stupid mainstream conservatism has become. Confederate flags are now the dividing line between "good" conservatives and "bad" conservatives.  https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com

Should be blame Andrew Jackson for the expansion of "democracy" in the  19th century? It certainly caused problems, but we shouldn't jettison  the proliferation of elected public offices at the local level. This is  an opportunity to embrace "think locally, act locally" and change the  political landscape.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/s...

Ken Burns is perhaps the most trusted historian in America. His  documentaries have been watched millions of times, and he has a virtual  monopoly on the genre. But don't be fooled. Burns has an agenda, even if  he says he doesn't. I discuss a recent interview with Burns on this  episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmccla...

Ryan Walters has written a great new book on Warren Harding. I recommend  you read it, and I tell you why on this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://learntruehistory.com

Are we witnessing another rise in libertarian thought? Have the last two  years produced a new wave of libertarians or is something else  happening? Can "libertarianism" solve the culture war? I discuss on this  episode of The Brion McClanahan Show.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://learntruehistory.com

The Neil Young vs. Joe Rogan tiff isn't new. It's a direct result of American cancel culture, a problem that dates back to the 17th century. And it's now become so entrenched in American society that it infects almost every element of society. The 1960s just produced another round of Yankees.  https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com

Ron Perlman wants out of the Union. Most Americans want Ron Perlman to  leave. He has finally come to the understanding that it doesn't have to  get ugly. Secession is a peaceful response to irreconcilable  differences. Perhaps we could just get rid of California (and a host of  other blue States). It isn't illegal. I discuss Perlman and the left's  embrace of secession on...

How do you stop unconstitutional acts by the general government? Reject their money. That's what Mike Maharrey argues at The Tenth Amendment Center, and he is spot on. If you don't want the strings, don't become the puppet. I discuss this think locally, act locally method on this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntru...

One establishment historian argues that Jefferson was an  "anti-originalist". His evidence? Jefferson suggested that the  Constitution needed to expire every 19 years. This doesn't make him an  anti-originalist. In fact, I'm not sure if this dope knows what  "originalism" means.    https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support  http://le...

Richard Poe has created a nice discussion with an article titled "How the British Caused the American Civil War" at LewRockwell.com. Several of you asked me to comment on it, and it is indeed a worthwhile piece. I quibbled with a couple of his positions, but overall, his macro approach to the conflict merits consideration, particularly as it places the debate over slavery in a secondary role to ec...

Continuing our discussion of James Fenimore Cooper and "equality," Cooper pivots to "American equality." Is is a different beast than European equality? Is it achievable, and more importantly, what kind of equality did Jefferson discuss in the Declaration? This chapter gets to the heart of the issue, and is worth our time to digest. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support...

Equality is arguably the most contentious word in political history. What does it mean? How do we achieve it, or should we? Do democracies naturally provide "equality"? Is "equality" a conservative term? American James Fenimore Cooper discussed it in detail in his The American Democrat (1838), a section of the book worth reading and great podcast fodder. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brion...

A long time listener asked me to define a "Yankee." Some people get  turned off when I use this word, so he wanted me to clarify whom I  considered to be Yankees. That's a good question, and it deserved an answer. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com

According the "conservative" Wayne Allyn Root, Confederates were "evil,"  just like the Nazis and Communists. Eric Foner couldn't have written it  better. With friends like these, who needs enemies? If "conservatives"  wish to continue this line of reasoning, they will never "conserve"  anything.   https://mcclanahanacademy.com  https://brionmcclanahan.com/support&nbs...

Karen Cox scirbbled a little book she calls THE history of Confederate  monuments last year. It isn't. It reads and is written like an activist  polemic, which is what she intended. Some of her arguments have no  documented evidence. This is par for the course for the modern  historical "profession."   https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http:...

PSU Professor Rachel Shelden presented "The Civil War as a  Constitutional Crisis" for CSPAN. She argues that the South believed  secession "dissolved the Union" while concurrently making secession  illegal in the newly formed CSA. These are her two most egregious  errors, among others, but this is the sad state of the historical  "profession" in America.   https://mc...