Author: FF
Another Spring Poem by William Wordsworth
I heard a thousand blended notes,
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts
Bring sad thoughts to the mind
Historiography for Damocles: Nikolai Berdyaev’s End of Our Time, by George Bagby
The modern age, argues Berdayev, has ended with the catastrophe of the Great War and a “New Middle Age” is upon us, where all will eventually choose between religious belief and the ersatz religion of ideology.
A Spring Poem by Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Home Rule and the Myth of Democracy: From Under the Rubble, Episode 22
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: “Home Rule and the Myth of Democracy.”
The Egg and Us: The Best Revenge, Episode 14
“The Egg and Us,” Chef Garret Fleming and Dr. Fleming on The Best Revenge.
Expletives Deleted: From Under the Rubble, Episode 21
Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott discuss coarse language From Under the Rubble.
Mystery and Detective Stories: Autodidact, Episode 1
In this first episode of our new series Autodidact, Dr. Fleming explores mystery and detective stories, from Oedipus to Agatha Christie to Edgar Allen Poe. Original Air Date: March 20, 2018 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner The Fleming Foundation · Autodidact, Episode 1: Mystery and Detective Stories Autodidact℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2018. All Rights are Reserved.
Communism and Capitalism by Thomas O’Malley
Communism is inherently violent, because the only way to bring it about is through violent revolution. Most communist thinkers, including Marx himself, believed this. Most communist rulers have believed this as well. Lenin said, “not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.” Mao said it didn’t matter if half the world died in a nuclear war, because the whole world would become communist afterwards.
Nihilism in Tenth Grade by George Bagby
“When your teacher tells you “Bach is beautiful and permanently valuable and Lady Gaga is not worthy of your attention or devotion,” is your teacher describing reality or only talking about his own feelings?”
This sentence has driven some of my students to tears.
