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Mystery and Detective Stories: Autodidact, Episode 1

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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.

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Communism and Capitalism by Thomas O’Malley

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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.

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Nihilism in Tenth Grade by George Bagby

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“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.

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Born out of Due Time, Chapter One, Part c

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In which our hero discovers that not all dreams reveal the truth. We visit the home of the improbably named Shawn Borowski, who is beginning to imagine that he is a noble Aztec, whose world has been destroyed by people who look like him.

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Roger McGrath on Guns and Violence, continued

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TJF:  What do you think of arming teachers?  What qualifications would you impose? What other approaches might be taken, apart from saving the family and destroying consolidated schools.  Finally, what went wrong with the sheriff’s deputies?  Should Sheriff Israel be forced to resign? It’s unfortunate that it has come to arming teachers,  but I suppose that before we can remake our society I think that certain qualified personnel on school grounds be permitted concealed carry.  Probably most of the faculty, administrators, and staff wouldn’t want to do so, and that’s fine because if only a few were armed,  rigorously trained, and...