What Franklin and the others knew is that a republican government is an exercise in human optimism, and patriotic republicans must be engaged in an unremitting struggle against that human entropy we used to know as original sin.
One of the themes of my writing for Fleming Foundation is: We have to get along with the Russians. They have 6,000 nuclear bombs. We have 6,000 nuclear bombs. Be careful.
The older textbook view of our history (whose most idiotic version goes by the name “American Exceptionalism”) is that the American colonists were a rare breed of individualists, cut loose from the traditions of old Europe, who came to New World seeking religious liberty.
Impromptu responses to the Ukraine crisis, Israel and Iran, the first transgender cabinet secretary, the most recent shooting in Minnesota
Americans seem divided on the British Royal Family. Hollywood adores Mr. and Mrs. Markle, while many populist conservatives complain that their antics should remind us why we rebelled in 1776. Looking for sanity in such a debate may be a futile exercise, but….
In preparation for the Summer Seminar on the age of Boethius, Stephen and Dr. Fleming discuss the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. This podcast is available to Gold and Charter subscribers. For the chronology, please see Chronology post on the website.
What a Presidential “press conference” might look like if the U.S. had real journalists. Imagine the answers. Or even a real system of debate where the Prime Minister has to answer questions from the Opposition. Or even if we had a real Opposition party.
A podcast discussion of the most vexed line in the Lord’s Prayer–and in all the Gospels.
Yesterday evening (Thursday, April Fools Day) I rushed home from a long day of pub-crawling in Southern Wisconsin to keep my promised appointment with “Dissident Mama,” a blogger and podcaster I met last Fall in Charleston.
For millions of Americans President Trump has become the symbol, voice, and hope of saving their America from ongoing destruction. Though the hope he raised remains spectacularly unfulfilled, he is still its recognized representative.
