Podcast: Maga is Revolting
Rex and Jim join Dr. Fleming in a free-wheeling discussion of the Epstein case and its implications.
Category: Fleming
Razzies for Tucker Carlson
My old friend Ron Maxwell posted a comment with a link to an NR story condemning Tucker Carlson for anti-Semitism. After “liking” Ron’s post, I commented:
Life in the Dark Age: The Corruption of Language, I
The battle over the verbal system was lost about the time people began to say, “Tomorrow we will go to the grocery store,” and “If I were you, I would not do that.”
Summer Poems
Four summer poems by A.E. Housman, the Welsh poet Edward Thomas, Robinson Jeffers, and Robert Louis Stevenson
Scott’s Ivanhoe Part II
The most striking feature of Ivanhoe is probably the depiction of the conflict between Saxons and Normans.
Poetry: Douglas Young
This is one of Douglas Young’s few poems in English (as opposed to what he called Lallans, Lowland Scots), though it is also in German, French, and Doric Greek. Note the date: 1939.
Notice to Greek and Italian Students
I have paused the classes for part of the Summer in order to give some students, who have told me they are lagging behind, the chance to catch up.
The Trump Dilemma
The MAGA coalition, if we can believe the media, is about to explode into antagonistic fragments. While many Trump voters are still loyal, others, following the lead of his would-be successors, are in rebellion. The cause of the rebellion is indicative of what is wrong with the entire movement.
Scott’s Scottish Nationalism
One important service Scott rendered his own people was the recovery of the Highlands as part of Scotland. Before Sir Walter, many Lowland Scots had shared the English view of the highlanders as brigands who periodically swept down from the hills to steal everything not nailed down. This was not an entirely false conception, as Scott freely acknowledged,
