Westerns Episode 10: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
In this episode Stephen and Dr Fleming agree to disagree on the good, the bad, and the ugly in perhaps Leone’s most celebrated film.
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Dismal Second GOP Debate
A few quick takes on the Second Republican Debate on Sept. 27. Vivek, who easily won the first debate, continuously was talked over in this one. The others also attacked him for getting some kind of loan from China. He missed a chance to explain how, in business, you get the cheapest capital you can, or your investors sue you. That dough was from China.
A Poetic Anathema to Journalists by Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters of Illinois was a law partner of Clarence Darrow until Darrow tried to frame him for his own chicanery. He was a biographer of Lincoln and Vachel Lindsay–the only other poet from Illinois. I’ve never much liked his verse, but he did have the knack of capturing the characters of the Midwest.
Dr E. C. Kopff Video excerpt of the 2023 Fleming Foundation Summer Symposium
The 2023 lectures are available NOW website store.
Dr. Fleming “Justice in Early Greece”, Excerpt from 2023 Fleming Foundation Summer Symposium Lecture. 5 min.
A 5 Minute excerpt from the Fleming Foundation Summer Seminar: How justice is corrupted by “rights.” All Lectures available now at the website store.
Low-trajectory Aspirations
After the fall, we each have a predominate fault driven by physiology rather than merely psychology or external circumstances. The modern personality tests only weakly address this
Last Spaceship: Cinema
Dr. Fleming says that the cultural elite who read this site might be interested in applying the spaceship game to movies. Like it or not, they are the chief art form of our time
Poem: Godspeed to Tweed by Asa Pinch
This villanelle was written as a response to our lamentations on the state of men’s clothing.
The Worst Things Since Sliced Bread II
In the first installment, we talked a great deal–as the title would suggest–about food and food technology. There is an unlimited number of topics, ranging from gardening to travel to the virtualization of reality. This week I propose clothing.
