Thomas Fleming
Thomas Fleming is president of the Fleming Foundation. He is the author of six books, including The Morality of Everyday Life and The Politics of Human Nature, as well as many articles and columns for newspapers, magazines,and learned journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and a B.A. in Greek from the College of Charleston. He served as editor of Chronicles: a Magazine of American Culture from 1984 to 2015 and president of The Rockford Institute from 1997-2014. In a previous life he taught classics at several colleges and served as a school headmaster in South Carolina
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Monarchy, aristocracy and an established church are starting to look real good right about now.
Oh yes, but it has to be a real monarchy and a real church. The last two Hapsburgs are looking like creatures of another order these days, but the poor old English have been making do with an imitation church since 1559, and they haven’t had even a convincing imitation of a real monarch since 1688 or 1715, depending how strictly one judges.