The Brion McClanahan Show

Several Oregon counties want to secede from Oregon and join Idaho. One historian called this "Secession 2.0." Is this true? No, and not just because this would create all sorts of Constitutional issues, all of which would probably be impossible to overcome. More importantly, if these people really wanted out, they should just do it as the founding generation: just form their own government and go...

Progressives telegraph their moves and they are the most predictable  group in American politics. They are also the most aggressive, myopic,  and cunning kneecappers America has ever seen. The impact of a Biden  administration was easy to predict. I hate to say that I was right about  it in January. Recent events prove my point. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclan...

It's become commonplace for corporations and individuals to issue woke  mea culpa's. Most of these have to do with positions taken decades or  even centuries ago. Take the U.K. Guardian for example. They recently  ran a story apologizing for thinking Abraham Lincoln was a dictator. You  see, no one can criticize the American saint. This is one thing they  actually got righ...

A custody battle in New York has taken a strange turn. A State appellate court has ruled that the mother of a seven-year old biracial girl needs to remove a rock painted with a Confederate flag from her driveway by June 1 or she will risk losing custody of her daughter. That's right. According to the court, the rock is causing great harm to the child. Except no one except these stupid judges, not...

Modern progressives are the puritans of our day. They believe in a secular religion, progressivism, that mandates obedience and conformity. This is no different than the 17th century Puritans who ran around banning books, plays, newspapers, dancing, or anything else that was fun, including Christmas. If you want to find the earliest evidence of cancel culture, you need to look to Massachusetts in...

Every now and then a progressive gets it. Zaid Jilani at Newsweek takes leftists to task for a failed messaging campaign. What is it? That everything is race, class, and gender. Most Americans don't want to hear it, but Democrats keep doubling down. He correctly identifies the culprit: white elite leftists. They are the people stuck on the SJW agenda even as most Americans tune out. I talk about J...

The propaganda rag known as The Atlantic recently published a piece  titled "Why Confederate Lies Live On." You can probably guess the  intellectual honesty of the piece. Most of it is nonsense I have covered  before, but the last part of the piece uses a tactic that is designed  to push the reader to a illogical conclusion. I explain in this episode  of The Brion McClanah...

Michael Anton has spilled a lot of ink attacking yours truly the last  week or so. He took issue with a piece I wrote for Chronicles magazine  attacking the 1776 Commission's report on American history. It was a  terrible Fairy Tale, and I explained why in my piece, but Anton wasn't  hearing it because he took it personally. He then followed up with  another piece targetin...

"Conservative" scholar Allen Guelzo has come up with a five part process to determine if we should rename or take down a monument or other memorial. This comes on the heels of the progressive effort to purge America of anything considered "evil." He doesn't realize that he's playing their game. The real response should be, "No. Shut Up." I talk about why on this episode of The Brion McClanahan Sho...

The National Democratic Party or NDP was a short lived conservative splinter party in 1896. Most people don't know anything about it. It was a truly "national" party with a "Union/Confederate" ticket. I discuss the party and VP nominee Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.c...

I frequently have people email me about book publishing. I have published five books with a conservative publishing house and a couple more elsewhere, and many want the inside scoop on how this is done. A recent article at https://justthenews.com discusses the current state of "conservative" book publishing. It offered some real nuggets, so I thought I would cover the topic in this episode of The...

Glenn Ellmers is questioning the value of Union. That alone is a big step for neoconservatives. He wrote a tortured piece questioning if the Union--"Unity"--is still worth it. Of course, he had to fall back on typical neoconservative Lincoln worship, but at least some progress is being made in regard to real American decentralization. I discuss Ellmers's essay in this episode of The Brion McClanah...

Joe Biden addressed Congress last week in one of the longest "State of the Union" addresses in recent history. They could have trimmed a lot of it by simply getting rid of the slogans and talking points from the Democratic Party. But more than anything, this speech showed how the United States has become more of a soft monarchy than even Great Britain. I discuss the speech in this episode of The B...

Fisher Ames is virtually unknown to most Americans, but next to John  Randolph of Roanoke, he was perhaps the best orator in congressional  history. Ames hailed from Massachusetts and detested democracy and all  "leveling" ideas. He also favored secession. That alone makes him  interesting. I discuss one of his more important essays in this Episode  of The Brion McClanahan...

Are "originalism" and "textualism" different? Yes. I've made this point  before on my show, but many people get confused by the terms. A listener  sent me an article explaining the differences and asked me to comment. I  liked the article, but even the writer doesn't seem to understand how  easy "originalism" is to understand. I explain in this episode of The  Brion McClan...

Florida's recently passed anti-riot act sparked a lot of leftist angst and has led to at least one lawsuit with others to follow. Are they justified? Short answer, no. This bill is a directly result of the 2020 "Summer of Love" and most normal Americans would support the legislation. I explain in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/s...

Democrats want to make Washington D.C. a state. This is all about power,  but more importantly, is it legal? They even know there are some  serious constitutional and legal hurdles in making Washington D.C. a  State. I discuss the issue in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com

Eugene Genovese was arguably the most important historian on the institution of slavery in the last half century. But his contributions to Southern history also covered the "Mind of the Master Class." Genovese took the South seriously as an intellectual force, and his 1992 "The Slaveholders' Dilemma" explores the complexities of Southern society and most importantly urges historians (and Americans...

Richard Weaver is one of the great political thinkers of the 20th century, and his 1960 essay "Conservatism and Libertarianism: The Common Ground" should be required reading for anyone interested in the modern political right. Weaver was called a conservative but in this essay he identified as a libertarian. He also had no problem being called a conservative. The glue? John C. Calhoun and the idea...

A listener asked, "What if the Anti-Federalists won?" What would America look like? Another listener is confused about the meaning of the American "nation." You have questions, I have answers. I smash two birds with one stone in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com

The left wants to redefine every element of American political, social,  and economic life. That's why a stupid congressman called "court  packing" infrastructure. Nancy Pelosi said that a bill presented by some  of these dimwits in Congress is DOA, but she will probably wait for  Biden's recently created commission on the federal courts to make a  recommendation to expand...

A bill introduced in the Alabama Senate gets it right. The Alabama Second Amendment Preservation Act hits all the right points and covers all the right bases. It's almost as if the bill's sponsor, Gerald Allen, has been listening to The Brion McClanahan Show and following the Tenth Amendment Center. I cover the bill in this episode of The Brion McClanahan Show. https://mcclanahanacademy.com https:...

South Carolina is considering a law to make teaching America's "founding documents" a mandated requirement at state colleges and universities. In addition to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, America's "founding documents" include the Federalist Papers and the Emancipation Proclamation. That's right. A (legally dubious) document presented in 1863 is now a "founding document," a...

Bud Kennedy at the Fort Worth Star Telegram thinks secession is illegal. It's a wonder such a great constitutional scholar has not been hired by some Texas school to teach law or at the very least Texas history. You see, he also doesn't understand that "Remember the Alamo!" was a rallying cry for...secession. He puts down a Texas legislator who advocates Texas secession because he owns an Ace Hard...

The new Georgia voter law sparked a furious response from several international corporations including Coca-Cola, Delta, and Major League Baseball. The hypocrisy of these "corporate persons" is not debatable, but the real problem in America is the judicial creation of "corporate persons" and the power massive corporations have on the American public. The Jeffersonians recognized the problem in the...