The Editor Interviewed by Greek Newspaper
A visitor to Athens, Thomas Fleming agreed to meet me and the result was the interview you are about to read, which gives answers to major issues that concern modern man in the West
Author: Thomas Fleming
Mankind’s Dead End
Many writers—and I among them—have compared modern man’s acceptance of abortion with the infanticidal cults of Carthaginians and their Phoenician ancestors, whose rites are so often condemned in the Old Testament. This is to some extent unfair to the Phoenicians.
The Worst Things Since Sliced Bread
Americans were taught to prefer a breadlike product with excessive moisture and lots of air whipped into the batter. The result –bread that is nothing like bread–is one of the most sinister contributions made by the 20th century.
Of Cabbages and Kings
An ever-expanding number of judges and members of representatives of the government media are giving Donald Trump the treatment reserved for designated regime traitors.
Cultural Conservatism
A few years back, when the air was fresh and the world was new, some of us thought that the election of Ronald Reagan was only the beginning of the beginning of “morning in America.” It is a common mistake. Some decades have an identity for those who set their mark upon them. In periods like the 1890’s, the 1920’s, and the 1960’s, while most people went about their business of working, living, and dying, if you were a decadent poet in London, a stockbroker or novelist in New York, a student at Berkeley, Madison, or Columbia, it was an age of gold.
This is the 1987 piece cited by Jerry Salyer.
Chumps for Trump vs. Fools for Fauci
I frequently see FB posts from sensible people asking why would anyone trust Donald Trump, while believing the scholars and scientists were part of a program of deception?
Life and Death In The House Divided
I have been asked to post this 1989 essay on the false leftist arguments used by the pro-life movement. In addition, I shall soon be posting part of a chapter from Book III of “Properties of Blood.”
WFB, JR: De Sociis Mortuis, nihil nisi bonum
A FB friend of mind sent me a link to an exchange he had with a movement conservative type on the subject of William Buckley. I was never close to WFB and, while I wrote for NR on several occasions, I was never an admirer of the shallowness and partisan bullying of much of what was written there, though I did respect many NR’s editors and writers, e.g., James Burnham, Ralph Toledano, Ernest Van den Haag, Thomas Molnar, Jeffrey Hart, Robert Nisbet, Russell Kirk, Mel Bradford, and Clyde Wilson, most of whom I published as NR began to be less receptive to their points of view.
Dog Bites Men
The media is agog over stories that the First Dog is a menace to Secret Service agents assigned to protect the President and his family.
“I Got Rights,” Conclusion
Most talk of morality and law is now reduced to a question of rights. Leftists talk about rights to privacy, gender equality, and minority rights, and—more recently—of the right not to be offended by other people’s prejudices, while Libertarians talk about the right of labor and goods to pass unhindered over borders—to say nothing of rights to life and property and the right to say or publish or film anything you like, no matter whom it offends or what moral harm it causes.
