The Brion McClanahan Show

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com With all of the attention Hollywood has been getting in recent weeks, I thought it would be good to do a show on the problems of Hollywierd and what they represent in modern America. It is not just about Harvey Weinstein or a "lack of creativity," it is part and parcel of the culture war taking place in America today. It is a lack of m...

I was told by an “actual historian” who teaches at Princeton the other day to “get to reading.” Why did he suggest I do this? Because I had the audacity to insist that he provide evidence that Confederate monuments were erected to “obscure bi-racial democracy.” His “proof” was David Blight’s book “Race and Reunion.” This professor assumed I had never read the book, and one little follower asked fo...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com United States Senate candidate Roy Moore has been called an "extremist" for supporting...gasp...the founding generation and the Constitution. This is a troubling development but one that has been years in the making. The latest character assassination comes at the hands of CNN who ran a hit piece on Moore and The Tenth Amendment Center...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com If you listen to the neo-cons (and their progressive forefathers), Americans have always supported foreign adventurism and have a moral obligation to do so. But is this true? How many wars in American history have been popular? I answer that question in Episode 119 of The Brion McClanahan Show.

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com A listener asked me to address this question so here you go. Is federal disaster relief constitutional? Big question with three major hurricanes doing serious damage in the United States and Puerto Rico recently. Short answer: No. I give you some historical examples (Cleveland and Coolidge) and talk about the political problems with th...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com A listener asked me if I support an Article V convention to amend the Constitution. Short answer, yes. There were many good amendments proposed by the States that did not make the final cut after the Constitution was ratified and there are also several good innovations in the Confederate Constitution of 1861. I proposed seven changes t...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Catalonia independence was temporarily prevented by the heavy hand of the state. This was the news story throughout the day of October 1 and will be an important story moving forward. Much has changed since 1989 and 1990 when communist governments peacefully gave up power to secession and self-determination. How should Americans respon...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Reconstruction used to be described as a tragic period in American history. It is now labeled an "unfinished revolution." This lends to the current trend of American iconoclasm and the push for the eradication of Western Civilization. I discuss Reconstruction and its legacy and meaning in Episode 115 of The Brion McClanahan Show.

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Donald Trump tells a crowd that NFL owners should fire players who take a knee. A few days later, 25% of NFL players took a knee and some refused to take the field during the "national anthem." One baseball player decided to take a knee as well and several NBA players took to social media to give Trump an earful. What is going on here?...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com People often ask me about James K. Polk. Wasn't he one of the greatest presidents in American history? His reputation has certainly received a boost in the last decade, and if we use that as a yardstick, I was cutting edge. As an undergraduate twenty years ago, I thought Polk was a fantastic president and wrote several laudatory resear...

http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com The Constitution for the United States is not the only Constitution in the United States. There are fifty other constitutions that no one knows anything about. American constitutional history must involve not only a discussion about the "Constitution," but also the Articles of Confederation, the Confederate Constitution, and the severa...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com This has become a trendy position recently. Mike Huckabee made news by suggesting so after the Senate blocked the repeal of Obamacare. I have been saying this for almost a decade, but whose counting? The 17th did much to undermine real federalism in America, but it was already on life support before that. Still...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com The AHA has told all of us idiots in America how to think about Confederate monuments. The question is, who are the idiots? They released a statement on August 28 presuming to speak for the entire American historical profession. Well, I am part of that profession, and I don't agree. I take their statement apart...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Who was the first President of the United States? Seems like a simple question with a simple answer, but some people have made it more complicated than it needs to be. They insist that there were over a dozen presidents BEFORE George Washington was sworn into office in 1789 because these men presided over the C...

You probably have heard this before. Secession is not legal because the Constitution does not expressly grant the states the power to leave the Union. I had some numbskull leave a "review" at Amazon of my 9 Presidents with this very critique. I couldn't resist the urge to take him down about one million notches. Plus, it provided a great opportunity to discuss the legality of secession. https://mc...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com John Taylor of Caroline is truly one of the greatest Americans. I think so highly of Taylor that I included a chapter on him in my Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers and he is featured in my forthcoming How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America. I thought it would be a good time to visit Taylor...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com People often point to the 1960s as the decade that "screwed things up," and in many ways they are correct, but it wasn't until the 1990s that Americans witnessed a full expression of the 1960s cultural mentality. Pat Buchanan's 1992 "Culture Wars" speech was prophetic. He was, in many ways, 25 years ahead of hi...

http://blamehamilton.com http://learntruehistory.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support Inquiring listeners want to know: has the United States always had a "two party system" and is that system codified in the Constitution? The answer is no to both, though there have always been factions in American government. Our "national" focus on American politics precludes us from looking to state and local...

http://blamehamilton.com http://learntruehistory.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support Why were monuments and memorials built in the South during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? A better question would be why so many monuments and memorials were built across the entire United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Confederate memorials need to be viewed within the context of Am...

http://blamehamilton.com http://learntruehistory.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support American politics has devolved into emotivism. "I feel" has replaced "I think," particularly for the ideologues on the Left, the fascists, communists, and socialists. They thrive on emotion, which is why they pick issues that will elicit an emotional response. But that is not who we are. The people I know who s...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Several people have asked me to respond to an Atlantic article about Robert E. Lee. I already did, over two years ago. Episode 102 republishes a talk I gave on Lee and the terrible book, Reading the Man by Elizabeth Brown Pryor, in January 2015, fully six months before the current pogrom on all things Southern...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Neo-conservatives can't decide why they hate Calhoun or the Southern tradition. Is it unwanted decentralization (secession) or unwanted centralization? In reality, the Southern tradition is just unwanted. The latest neo-conservative stooge to make a stupid claim about Calhoun drips from the pen of John Daniel D...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com People are always asking me what they can do to help correct the biases of the mainstream academy and media. This podcast is for you, and it's two words: popular history. Most Americans get their history from documentaries, popular histories (meaning non-academic), and the Internet. You can do all three without...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com You've probably heard this before from a half-witted modern academic: "The only difference between the CSA Constitution and the USA Constitution was slavery." Right. No one thought about anything else, except they did. I discuss the Confederate Constitution and the difference between the two documents as part o...

http://blamehamilton.com http://brionmcclanahan.com/support http://learntruehistory.com Trump has his back against the wall. Leaks, obstruction, and disorder have been the norm for the last six months. This could have been predicted. When Trump decided to bring in several establishment Republicans to the White House, he opened the door to this type of abuse. They are not his friends and should be...