The Editor Interviewed by Greek Newspaper
A visitor to Athens, Thomas Fleming agreed to meet me and the result was the interview you are about to read, which gives answers to major issues that concern modern man in the West
Category: Feature
Mankind’s Dead End
Many writers—and I among them—have compared modern man’s acceptance of abortion with the infanticidal cults of Carthaginians and their Phoenician ancestors, whose rites are so often condemned in the Old Testament. This is to some extent unfair to the Phoenicians.
Of Cabbages and Kings
An ever-expanding number of judges and members of representatives of the government media are giving Donald Trump the treatment reserved for designated regime traitors.
Chumps for Trump vs. Fools for Fauci
I frequently see FB posts from sensible people asking why would anyone trust Donald Trump, while believing the scholars and scientists were part of a program of deception?
WFB, JR: De Sociis Mortuis, nihil nisi bonum
A FB friend of mind sent me a link to an exchange he had with a movement conservative type on the subject of William Buckley. I was never close to WFB and, while I wrote for NR on several occasions, I was never an admirer of the shallowness and partisan bullying of much of what was written there, though I did respect many NR’s editors and writers, e.g., James Burnham, Ralph Toledano, Ernest Van den Haag, Thomas Molnar, Jeffrey Hart, Robert Nisbet, Russell Kirk, Mel Bradford, and Clyde Wilson, most of whom I published as NR began to be less receptive to their points of view.
Dog Bites Men
The media is agog over stories that the First Dog is a menace to Secret Service agents assigned to protect the President and his family.
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.
“I Got Rights,” Conclusion
Most talk of morality and law is now reduced to a question of rights. Leftists talk about rights to privacy, gender equality, and minority rights, and—more recently—of the right not to be offended by other people’s prejudices, while Libertarians talk about the right of labor and goods to pass unhindered over borders—to say nothing of rights to life and property and the right to say or publish or film anything you like, no matter whom it offends or what moral harm it causes.
“I Got Rights,” Part III (of IV)
Educated Americans believe, for the most part, that revenge–even when it can be excused or mitigated–is always wrong. In legal terms, right—by which I mean the principle of rightness in good behavior—almost always involves the assertion and protection of rights, which are something like the 10 Commandments or Plato’s Ideas or the Natural Law of the Stoics:
I Got Rights, Part II
Then what does an American citizen do when he discovers that his civil rights are not protected by governments who prefer to protect the universal human rights of illegal alines and criminals? Consider the situation in which the hero of a country song (Hank Williams, Jr.’s, “I Got Rights”) finds himself.
