America’s southern universities are booming, and Helen Andrews thinks students are fleeing prestigious Northeastern American schools to escape immigrant striver culture. Scott Greer thinks they’re escaping woke. Christopher Sandbatch wrote our award-winning piece this week, with a structural analysis that goes deeper than both of these interpretations.
In this episode we discuss what makes “The South” so special, and how we should be encouraging sensitive young men to revive their own region’s distinctiveness rather than glomming onto the SEC’s magical vibes.
Mentioned:
Natasha Burge essay on Jack Kerouac’s Catholocism
Devon Eriksen’s thread on John Cleese
Helen Andrews’ thread on immigrant stiver culture infecting U.S. prestige schools
Scott Greer essay arguing that it’s not the immigrant worker bees, it’s the libtards
Christopher’s essay The South and the SEC as Spectacle
