Intrascendence, Myth, & the Southern Agrarian Legacy

By |2024-01-10T19:08:48-06:00January 10th, 2024|Categories: Agrarianism, Allen Tate, American Republic, Books, South|

There is more to Southern life than moonlight and magnolia. It presumed, in fact, an affection for the literal world justified by its origin, history, and destiny, infused with its own providentially given meaning and value. It was not a perfect society, to be sure. But it had at its core something which deserves respect. [...]

The Stand of Allen Tate

By |2023-10-06T06:40:58-05:00October 5th, 2023|Categories: Agrarianism, Allen Tate, South, Southern Agrarians|

“No society is worth ‘saving’ as such,” wrote Allen Tate (1899–1979). “What we must save is the truth of God and man, and the right society follows.”1 Such words are anathema to the secularists whose “progressive” theories have intoxicated the modern mind. Words of this kind are neither popular nor politically expedient in an age [...]

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