Author: Thomas Fleming
Italian II, Unit II, Lesson 6
Four very common irregular verbs whose infinitives end in -are, phrases pertaining to time, numbers, feelings.
Poems of Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion was a master of verse and beautiful composer of the Elizabethan period. Known mostly for his sometimes racy love songs, he had many voices and moods. Be sure to listen to Alfred Deller’s moving performance.
POB II.9 Collective Violence, Part I
I have been dragging my heels too long and need to finish the second volume of Properties of Blood. As a stimulus to action, I am going to be posting every week some selections. This discussion, which will be in several parts, is devoted to collective violence.
Laying The Ghosts of Southern Nationalism
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
Greek I. 8 Imperfect Indicative, Dative of Manner
In this lesson, we are introduced to the imperfect tense in the active voice.
Charity Begins at Home
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
Italian II, Unit II, Lesson 5
Remember that we have learned two types of adjectives, the first being words with masculine singular in -o and feminine singular in -a, and the second being words ending in -e in both masculine and feminine singular and -i in the plural.
Greek 1.7 More A-stem nouns, Accusative of Extent EXPANDED
As I indicated in the previous lessons, in feminine nouns, which originally ended in long A, that A becomes H in Attic Greek except when preceded by ε, ι, ρ. This only affects the singular forms.
A Not So Wonderful Life
This essay, published 35 years ago, completed the process by which we were expelled from the conservative movement and expunged from history.
