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Biography

Joining the Independent Women's Forum in 1999 as editor of The Women's Quarterly, Charlotte Hays now serves as director of cultural programs, where she blogs daily on The Inkwell. A former correspondent for the National Catholic Register and former feature writer at The Washington Times, Hays has been fascinated by politics since covering local politics for alternative weeklies in New Orleans. She is coauthor of three humorous books on southern culture, the first of which was the best-selling Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral. She is also author of Fortune Hunters, a book on what it takes to make a Midas marriage.

Articles

1619 Really Was Crucial to the American Founding

By Charlotte Hays

Call me the 1617 Project.Yep, that’s the year my first ancestor born on these then-wild and woolly shores saw the ...

October 28, 2020

Fake News: The Atlantic Smears My Hometown...but Posh Magazines Never Get Called Out for Their Fake News

By Charlotte Hays

When the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church, a century-old African-American congregation in downtown Greenville, Mississippi, was burned down last fall, the ...

January 13, 2017

Do the Russkies Deserve the Pulitzky Prize?

December 16, 2016 |

Who’s Really Left Behind?: Reconnecting with Middle America Requires More than Messaging

By Charlotte Hays

One of the many unintentionally revealing outpourings of anguish from the Democratic elite in the wake of Hillary Clinton's rout ...

December 02, 2016

A Few Words on Infantilizing Feminism and the Campaign Just Ended: The Maturity Gap

November 11, 2016 |

Obama's Fundamental Transformation Is Built on Quicksand; It is about to Become Set in Cement

By Charlotte Hays

While the poisonous bitterness and class and racial hatred sown by President Obama over the last eight years will be ...

October 28, 2016

Wikileaks: Clinton Campaign Probably Knows the Truth about Job Loss and the $15 Minimum Wage Hike

October 14, 2016 |

Stop and Frisk: The Inner City's Best Friend

September 30, 2016 |

A New Theory of the (Male) Leisure Class

By Charlotte Hays

Thorstein Veblen, the author of the classic The Theory of the Leisure Class, is probably shouting from somewhere in the great ...

September 16, 2016

Helpless Hillary

By Charlotte Hays

As a feminist icon, Hillary Clinton is allegedly nonpareil. And yet the more that is revealed, one can't ...

September 02, 2016

Long Overdue Wisdom from Donald Trump on Race, Law, and Order

By Charlotte Hays

Trump likely will have said something new to suck up the media's attention—that 's his habit any time he makes ...

August 19, 2016

Second District Court Of Appeals: Two (Genders) Can Tango With Title IX

By Charlotte Hays

Although Title IX, the 1972 federal statute banning sexual discrimination in education, is generally regarded as a girl thing, a ...

August 05, 2016

Facing Up To Our Predicament: Stop Calling These Murders "Senseless"

By Charlotte Hays

Whenever we get the horrible word, by no means rare now, that innocent people have been slaughtered, our leaders inevitably ...

July 22, 2016

Hillary's Scam Vs. Donald's Scam

July 08, 2016 |

Why Is Fingerprinting Such a Sticky Point for Uber?

June 24, 2016 |

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