Should Civil War Southerners be compared to Nazis? Andy Whitman responds.

My favorite music reviewer/columnist Andy Whitman writes about other things too, with just as much passion and insight.

Today, at Good Letters, he offers a thoughtful perspective on recent media references to the Civil War and the people of the South:

Painting the Confederacy as unmitigated villains ignores both the  complexity and the simplicity of history. It ignores the complexity  because the causes for war, and the reasons for individuals serving in a  cause, even an evil cause, are never as straightforward as the  historians would have us believe.