Author: Thomas Fleming

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12 Dec, 2020

Not My President!

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Karl Keating, the wise founder of Catholic Answers, has put up a post saying it is time for Trump supporters to wise up, take their medicine, and acknowledge Biden  as “my President.” His argument, as one would expect from such a man, makes good sense. Of course the Democrats cheated, just as the Republicans cheated. Both sides always cheat, and they have rigged the system to be a strictly two-party system in which the two gangs of scoundrels will take turns grabbing the boodle. I am not happy with the outcome, but if the Democrats are better at playing the...

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9 Dec, 2020

Ajax: The Suicide

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The Chorus, who have been obtuse throughout the play, have misunderstood Ajax’s parting words as a change of heart instead of a rueful admission that he misjudged the world he has lived in.  The drama becomes more intense, when a messenger comes in to report on Teucer’s hostile reception in the Greek camp, and on the instructions he had received from Calchas the prophet NOT to let Ajax out of his hut. 

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5 Dec, 2020

What Are the Classics? Conclusion

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For several decades I have plagued teachers and school principals with a few basic questions, without finding anyone of them who could give a reasonable answer.  Until these questions are seriously addressed, there can be no significant improvement in education.  It is not as if they are trick questions.  They are the kind of queries that would be made of any human activity that absorbs to much time, energy, and resources.  

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2 Dec, 2020

Defining Terms: A Brief Squib

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There is an interesting FB discussion going on over a post by Carl Jones on the question of capitalism. I would suggest that people who use terms like free market and capitalism begin by understanding the literal meaning of the words they are using.

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27 Nov, 2020

What Are the Classics and Why Should We Read Them”

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We live in a culture gone mad on theory: theories of sex and family, theories of government, and, inevitably, theories of education. A debate has raged for centuries over “the future of education.”  Early American liberals like Noah Webster insisted that a democratic society needed a suitable educational system, divorced from the classical tradition that encouraged aristocracy and elitism.