Yesterday evening (Thursday, April Fools Day) I rushed home from a long day of pub-crawling in Southern Wisconsin to keep my promised appointment with "Dissident Mama," a blogger and podcaster I met last Fall in Charleston. She was kind enough to edit and post this interview this morning.
If you enjoy it, I hope you will inform the good lady and visit her site.
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
I’m glad I caught this just before the three and a half hour internment in the mechanical jacobin.
This was enjoyable even excellent. The only two things I have read or listened to today on Good Friday —Tom Flemings interview with a “dissident mama” and Archbishop Vigano’s recent meditation on the passion of Christ. I know these may seem like disparate subjects but really not at all. And more than enough to consider for one “Good” day. Thank you to both.
It was a fast-moving and excellent show. I’ve enjoyed Rebecca’s work since her occasional pieces began showing up on the Abbeville website. I think Dr Fleming gave a good advertisement for himself and his work, and I made sure to comment on the DM site and remind Rebecca’s regular listeners about the summer program. I think there’s got to be at least a few more homeschooling types who might have been a little more steered in the classics direction today.
Excellent! I must be on the same wavelength as Mr. Reavis, as I too enjoyed Archbishop Vigano’s reflections in addition to this wide-ranging interview with our fearless leader! Both of these gentlemen share a clear-headed view of the current state of our world.