Author: Thomas Fleming

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26 Sep, 2023

When Bad Things Happen to Good People……

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This a much revised section of a chapter (“The Demands of Blood”) of Volume II of Properties of Blood.  It is the first of a series of chapters in which vengeance–its nature, its institutions, its justifications–are discussed.  It begins by taking up one of the oldest and still most thorny ethical dilemmas:  Why do good men suffer, and what can be done about it?  It is the first step in laying the groundwork for understanding the violent anarchy into which American society has fallen and the possible means at our disposal for redressing the injustices.

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6 Sep, 2023

Robert Hickson, RIP

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I have just received the sad news that my old friend Bob Hickson died recently. Bob was a West Point graduate and Vietnam veteran who is known to many traditional Catholics for his devotion to the Catholic tradition. Although a few years older than I am, he was my student in a summer school course in Augustan Latin literature at Chapel Hill. It was typical of Bob that his response, when I had given him some Ovid to read, was a mixture of admiration and disgust. “Why he even sneers at the emperor Augustus.” It is symptomatic of the age...