Author: Thomas Fleming

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31 Jul, 2020

Homer Against the Iconoclasts

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This is the opening lecture of the Fleming Foundation’s 2020 Seminar on Homer–held in the teeth of a government shutdown on the freedoms of speech and assembly and of the political correctness being imposed by mob rule and insurrection. Thomas Fleming provides an overview of the Greek reverence for religious and national symbols and contrasts the piety and respectfulness of the ancient Greeks with the irrational and hate-inspired vandalism of contemporary America.

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29 Jul, 2020

More on the Masked Avengers

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A FB friend I wish I knew personally reposted my observations on masks. I thought about responding to the rather shrill responses, but it would be bad taste to insert myself into his discussion, so… I don’t wish to stick my oar into Bob Alpert’s discussion, but I did include a proviso for medical necessity, which I meant also to cover, obviously, people in regular contact with decrepit old people like me. Our son, in his late 30’s, was talking to me on FaceTime, from Chapel Hill, when someone across the street–about 30 feet away, tried to shame him for...

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27 Jul, 2020

A Painful but Necessary Digression

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an exclusively deductive political theorist will, with Rousseau, “begin by setting aside the facts” and quickly racing over one pons asinorum after another, declare that all property is theft and marriage, along with private property and “the state,” historical inventions made by tyrannical male capitalists plotting to subjugate the human race. 

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9 Jul, 2020

Comfortable Words, PS

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FDR hardly had a a neuron in his brain that was not employed full time in pandering to his vanity and lust for power, and he inevitably chose yes men and second-raters of the Rex Tugwell type–just as Kennedy did–to be his collaborators.

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8 Jul, 2020

Comfortable Words from a Skeptic

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One of FDR’s many mercenary writers penned a line that is quoted often but perhaps not enough: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” That’s obviously not true in any literal sense. As the tornado comes barreling down the street and is about to slam into my house and take us all to Oz,. fear is not the main problem, but in responding to the twin panics, ginned up by government and their media, fear is the greatest problem. A friend recently posted something someone wrote him, comparing our current problems with the Holocaust and used as...

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5 Jul, 2020

Free Ghislaine Maxwell

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The FBI’s arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell has been applauded nearly everywhere.  It is one thing on which the phony left and the phony right can agree.  Jeffrey Epstein was the devil, and Ms Maxwell was his madame.  

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28 Jun, 2020

BLM Cries Foul!

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BLM people are complaining that all sorts of radicals are trying to horn in on the action. According to Andy Vaught, crack investigative reporter for SNO….

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20 Jun, 2020

Slavery and the Black Family

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Here in America, white and black children often are taught to call a family friend aunty or uncle, while in the South some form of Maum/Mom was often used by polite white children to show respect for an elderly black woman.  Kindness and good manners are not racist

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19 Jun, 2020

Whining the Time Away

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I too get as disgusted with my Irish-American relatives for their whining as I am tired of every other race and ethnicity whining about its problems. I once met a Hungarian pastor who piously told me–this was in Zagreb–that although everyone else in the Balkans had beaten up on some other group, the Hungarians were entirely free of imperialism. He was counting on my ignorance of Balkan history.