Rumors of War: Podcast Part 1 of 2
In this first part, Dr. Fleming and Rex dissect the dishonest and degrading rhetoric of the American debate on Hamas’s terrorist attack.
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Westerns Episode 11: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss a movie in an entirely different mode from the Man with No Name Trilogy and even High Plains Drifter and beyond: the sympathetic-to-the-Confederacy film The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Sober Wisdom on the Middle East from Sacha Vliegen
I visited war-torn Syria in 2016. A country where in some regions there are no longer 3/4 young men between the ages of 18-45 thanks to the conflict. What makes it even worse is that this conflict was planned in advance. The opposition has been armed and trained by the US and its allies since 2006. “Democratic freedom fighters” who would bring Syria into the Western liberal world, so was the propaganda that was fueled here at the beginning of the Arab Spring. For me, this was also a far from my bed show at the beginning. Until those democratic...
Westerns Episode 10: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
In this episode Stephen and Dr Fleming agree to disagree on the good, the bad, and the ugly in perhaps Leone’s most celebrated film.
Westerns, Episode 9: El Dorado, 1966
In this episode Dr Fleming comments on the interplay between John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in a Howard Hawks film of a different era.
Westerns Episode 7: Yojimbo (1961)
This next group of Westerns, from the 1960-1990 time period, starts with a perhaps unexpected entry: Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Yojimbo, a film in dialogue with, and a major influence on, the Western genre.
Rights of Slaves, Slaves of Rights II: The Right to be Reeducated
Where in the world did people get the idea that children have the right to a free education provided by the state?
Podcast: Rich Men North of Richmond
And poor men South and North. Stephen Heiner goads Dr. Fleming on a country song that is sweeping the nation. Is it the start of populist rebellion or just a whine for the clueless proletariat?
Poem: Godspeed to Tweed by Asa Pinch
This villanelle was written as a response to our lamentations on the state of men’s clothing.
