Life–Right or Duty? Part 1: From Under the Rubble: Episode 33
In this first of a series of podcasts, Thomas Fleming and Rex Scott debate the constitutional, ethical, and Christian arguments for and against pre-partum infanticide.
Author: Thomas Fleming
Take Five: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Anyone can quit smoking, but it takes a man to face cancer.” An old saying from the 1960’s.
Take Five: The Sin of Civil Disobedience
A Scandinavian civil disobedient gives new life to the insult “Dumb Swede.”
Poems of the Week: Lunacy
Sad things, as are the reaches of a stream
Flowing beneath a golden moon alone.
Herodotus Book I, Continued: Democracy and Tyranny
By Herodotus’ time, tyranny had developed a bad name, and he his descriptions of their behavior constitutes a pragmatic manual to set beside Machiavelli’s The Prince. Tyrants champion the poor and the weak particularly women and foreigners; they are lustful and prone to adultery and eccentricity—Periander was accused of having relations with his dead wife. They maintain power by disarming the citizenry and oppressing anyone who is distinguished for birth, talent, virtue, or wealth. I know, it sounds exactly like the Democratic Party today.
Autodidact: Herodotus, Part I
Since the Persian Wars—like the Punic Wars, the Crusades, and the West’s ongoing struggle with Islam—serve to define who we are, perhaps it would be useful to take a brief look at the parts of Herodotus that are directly relevant to the cultural struggle between the West and its enemies.
Take Five: Mercy Without Justice
In postmodern America, Paul Manafort is the “man in the iron mask” while an aspiring serial killer who hangs a toddler gets probation
Thomas Fleming Interviews Ched Rayson
CPR: I began to wonder if this website was a good place to launch the book. It is not the small circulation that disturbed me, but the apparent lack of interest. When I asked for the metrics on my chapters in comparison with other stuff, what you gave me showed a huge gap between pieces authored by you and those that had been written by others. I began to wonder if this site was not simply, you know, some kind of ego trip for an editor who had been bounced from his job. The idea of you getting more attention than me was pretty demoralizing.
Rending the Seamless Garment, II: Killing the Killers
I have heard liberal Catholic priests and Protestant ministers say that there is something “unchristian” about the death penalty. I have even heard those who say that the Church has always been opposed to executions, but I challenge them to cite one passage of Scripture or one creed, one conciliar document, one encyclical that unequivocally condemns the execution of murderers.
