Syrians, Assyrians, and Americans
Even before Assad’s prisons were opened, our official media were predicting instruments of torture and all the other accoutrements of a Gothic novel.
Author: Thomas Fleming
Attention, Please
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Riding the Red Horse
Refusal to fight may be cowardice and treason that darkens the soul of a single man, but the opposite mistake—an impetuous and reckless decision to make unnecessary war—may cost the lives of millions.
Metaphysical Conservatives, Conclusion
We have to deal with historical man, not the abstract man projected by libertarian economists, Marxist-Straussian theorists, or city-on-a-hill religious fanatics. Conservatives should always be on guard against the presumption that they have all the answers.
Metaphysical Conservatives, Part One of Two
These musings on metaphysics and property, here revised and corrected, were first published in a magazine, when there was a magazine where such foolishness could be printed.
Poem: North of Arezzo
A poem written long ago in a style and vein that might have pleased the subject, Peter Russell.
The American Freak Show
Every morning in Rome, I scanned the America news from my cellular telephone, and, as Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments rolled by, I felt as if I were watching a parade of freaks
Living Backwards
Last night I said good by to our last guests but one. I greeted the group In Pisa on the afternoon of the third. We had by then been in Italy since October 22.
