Author: Thomas Fleming
Poems by Edmund Blunden
Edmund Blunden was born in in 1896 in London and saw combat service in WW I. He was the lifelong friend of Siegfried Sassoon. In 1924 he became an English professor at the University of Tokyo, returned at the end of WWII, and accepted a position at Honk Kong. He returned to England and died in 1974.
The Doctor Is In
Freedom is not “just another word for nothing left to lose,” with a tip of the hat to the late pop singer B.J. Thomas.
From Abraham to Napoleon, Part II
Few details of the story of Exodus have been securely confirmed by archeologists. Nonetheless, it is not unreasonable to suppose that nomadic Hebrews made their way out of Egypt back to southern Canaan, where some of their people appear to have been living already.
Ilhan Omar–Unwelcome Guest
Ilhan Omar’s campaign slogan was “Send Her Back”–to Congress, of course. There is no doubt that the Congress of the United States deserves a member as loose in her financial dealings as in her intimate life, but it is not to Washington but to Mogadishu that she should be sent.
Poems by Vachel Lindsay
Vachel Lindsay is an American original. He tramped his way through middle America selling his pamphlet, “Rhymes for Bread”. He was quite mad and killed himself for love of Sarah Teasdale. His son lived on Johns Island, SC, and I knew VL’s granddaughter in college.
Herodotus: Book V
Herodotus give his account of the resentments of Miletus against the Persians and the story of the Ionian Revolt, which is the beginning of open warfare between the Greeks and Persians
Saving the Remnant, Part Six (Conclusion)
The Kingdom of Theoderic, the judicial murder of Boethius, Justinian’s reconstruction of the Empire, the coming of the Dark Age and the rise of the Roman Church.
Disperandum
How many times have you read a movement Conservative’s explanation of political correctness and critical theory as the products of Marxism?
