Category: Fleming
Life in the Dark Age, The Corruption of Language, Part II
Among most common example these days come from IT and business management. Business management experts give us such portmanteau words as “freemium,” “satisfries,” and webinar,” to say nothing of such horrors as “incentivize” and “customer journey,” and “next generation.”
Chesterton’s Road from Rome: Conclusion
The Greek and Roman pagans, by virtue of their belief in their own moral freedom, were in fact free, and this puts them in stark contrast with such servile and bloody nations as the Aztecs and the Carthaginians
The Road From Rome, Part I
This talk on Chesterton and Rome was delivered at the 20th Anniversary of The Chesterton Society, held in Toronto, Canada, 16-18 September 1994, and published, if memory serves, in The Chesterton Review.
Mass Tourists, Mass Youth Groups, and Other Blights on Civilization
How mass tourism is destroying local communities….
Modern Greek 2: Basic Expressions
Basic expressions with some notes on how similar (with some differences) MG is to Ancient.
Podcast on Slang
The three Mot-sketeers talk about American slang–a badge of identity and the inversion of values.
Podcast: Less Than Five Minutes of Sarcasm
What the response to that infamous Sydney Sweeney commercial really means….
