Yearly Archive: 2019

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Fleming

16 Oct, 2019

Where’s Anterus Smith?

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This is not the title of a new game to replace “Where’s Waldo?” but a chance to interrogate Chad Rayson, the August Derleth of the Iron Range. TFF:  So, Chad, what happened to Anterus Smith or by whatever name he wishes to be called? CR:  So what is this?   You’re Aeschylus writing an ode to Zeus?   You want to know what the trouble with you classicists is? TFF;  Not especially, in fact, definitely no. CR:  I’ll tell you anyway.  You’re so tied up in some other word, going in quest of Ulysses or sailing with Jason and the...

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

16 Oct, 2019

Wednesday’s Child: Loners

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A curious thing happened some days ago in the village of N– .  Nineteenth-century writers were exacting about sparing the localities where their narratives unfolded a likely embarrassment of disclosure, while at the same time saving their audience from fatigue attendant on superfluous knowledge.  Hoping that my own gentle reader may one day reward me, if only by renewing his subscription, I shall now adopt this antiquated practice. At first glance the tiny village, with a population of just over a thousand, seems a bucolic and tranquil sort of place, but facts show that it is in fact a human...

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Feature / Fleming

14 Oct, 2019

What is Paleoconservatism, Part V: The Fatal Attraction of Politics

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In striking out on our own, we did not intend to surrender the wisdom painfully acquired by earlier generations of classical liberals, libertarians, and small-government conservatives.  If government interference in private life was a major source of social and moral dissolution, then it made no sense to call upon governments to save the family, restore community, or promote great art.

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

14 Oct, 2019

Why Does Anybody Believe a CIA Whistleblower?

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Now we have the spectacle of an unknown “whistleblower” from the CIA trying to take out the president of the United States over the whole Ukraine nonsense. Which isn’t surprising, given that the intelligence services were taken over in the Obama years by far-left democrats, including John “Red” Brennan, James Comey and James Clapper. When their beloved Hillary lost the election, the became enraged, along with their factotums in the media, and have launched multiple assaults on Trump.