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'The Neutral Ground' Review: CJ Hunt Injects Humor Into the Debate Over Confederate Monuments 'The Neutral Ground' Review: CJ Hunt Injects Humor Into the Debate Over Confederate Monuments Before joining 'The Daily Show,' field producer CJ Hunt honed his satirical approach digging into the powerful grip of Lost Cause logic on the South. Peter Debruge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 82 MIN. Courtesy of Tribeca Festival In August 2017, Americans clashed in Charlottesville, Va., over the question of whether to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. It wa...

Are the Lost Causers and their confederates finding they may have better luck becoming Charters of Freedom banner wavers? I saw many Stars-and-Stripes wavers bombarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but I didn’t see anyone I would call civic-minded. From the board of education to the town councils to the county courthouses, free speech adherents want to curtail our votes and scholarly curriculum. I watched speakers for the Charters of Freedom at the historic courthouse in Carthage on April 6 who were also there to plead further interpretations of the Second Amendment, with the First ...

‘Almost Home’: On Place, Legacy, Growing Up in Atlanta, and Symbols of White Supremacy The largest confederate memorial in America is carved out of rock in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The site is linked to many Klu Klux Klan gatherings and the state of Georgia's resistance to the Civil Rights movement in the '50s and '60s. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) In “Almost Home,” an essay at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pete Candler reflects on growing up in Atlanta, and the symbols of white supremacy in his hometown. It certainly never occurred to me then that the K...