Dr. Jack Trotter Podcast with John Yost at the 2023 Fleming Foundation Summer Symposium, 12 min.
Prof. Trotter discusses the decline of literacy and points to some signs of life in young American minds.
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The Worst Things Since Sliced Bread
Americans were taught to prefer a breadlike product with excessive moisture and lots of air whipped into the batter. The result –bread that is nothing like bread–is one of the most sinister contributions made by the 20th century.
Life and Death In The House Divided
I have been asked to post this 1989 essay on the false leftist arguments used by the pro-life movement. In addition, I shall soon be posting part of a chapter from Book III of “Properties of Blood.”
You Heard It First From…..by Jerry Salyer
I am almost blushing as I post this piece by Jerry Salyer.
Podcast: Prof. E.C. Kopff Podcast with John Yost, 13 Min.
This podcast on the importance of humane studies was recorded during the Fleming Foundation’s 2023 Summer School on The Wrong of Rights. In a week or so, the lectures will be on sale.
Personal Story: How Russia Deals with Mutinies
Back in spring 1980 I was a Russian linguist in the U.S. Army stationed at a listening post east of Hamburg and just west of The Wall with East Germany. Not the Berlin Wall. This was The Wall that stretched from the Baltic Sea southward and separated East from West Germany. We used to listen to the Soviet Army practicing launching their nuclear missiles. One day I calculated the target position: Our position.
The View From Mars’ Hill, IIl: The Kingdoms of Love and Strife
Many an ambitious ruler, seeking to extend his power, has stubbed his big toe on the brute facts of family and kinship, and many an ideological revolution that failed to reckon with the bind forces of greed and competition has been brought down by the primitive passions and instincts they had hoped to eliminate or at least suppress.
The View From Mars Hill, II: Christian Friendship
Now, “brother” and “friend” are or at least used to be rather exclusive terms. They did not refer to just anyone, much less everyone.
The View from Mars Hill: Love and Hate in the Cities of Man, Part 1 (of 3)
This is the text of a talk presented at a conference, in Waterford, Wisconsin, attended by mostly Lutheran pastors plus a sprinkling of heretics and one papist, arranged by my friend Pastor David Ramirez.
Additional Summer School 2023 Readings, Updated 06/17
David Hume’s essay on The Original Contract has been added. Passages Added from Plato and Aristotle. In addition to the assigned readings, the following passages and fragments will be referred to. More will be added in the coming days. P
