Author: Thomas Fleming

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9 Oct, 2024

A Botched Civilization, Part 1 of 2

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The First World War was a defining moment for the civilization of Europe.  The first war and its inevitable successor have been called Europe’s civil war, and there is truth in this characterization.  Divided by language, religion, and culture, the nations of Europe were united in a common civilization.  But if the two conflicts were part of a European civil war, they were also the beginning of the end of Europe and Christendom, whose memory is now preserved only in libraries, museums, and some churches.

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3 Oct, 2024

Puttin’ On the Ritz Crackers

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I used to take some care in cutting and lighting my cigars, but the sight of the aficionados at work, many of whom have less taste in cigars than the affected young man, has driven me to biting the end off and snatching a light from a pack of cheap matches or from the kitchen stove.

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1 Oct, 2024

Wooden Heads and Stony Hearts

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The abortion question is being raised by both sides in the shadow boxing performance we call presidential elections. No other question so exemplifies Sam Francis’ characterization (borrowed from the father of Neoconservatism, Benjamin Disraeli) of our two national factions as the Evil Party and the Stupid Party.

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20 Sep, 2024

Beers for Fears

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Americans live on a diet of fear.  The fears on which we feed are not  just our metaphorical daily dose of nuclear holocaust, deadly plague, poisonous spiders, extraterrestrial invasion, and global warming, but, literally, the food we put into our mouths.