More Apocryphal Wisdom: Chapters 3-4
It is pretty clear why the rabbis eventually rejected a book whose third chapter begins with a promise of immortality for the just:
Category: Fleming
Apocryphal Wisdom
We have started the Book of Wisdom. It is even better than I recalled. We are doing two chapters a day, if anyone cares to join us.
An American Terrorist
The murder of the United Health Care CEO raises more than one ethical question, and the approval of the killing expressed in some quarters gives us a hint of what to expect in the American future
Syrians, Assyrians, and Americans
Even before Assad’s prisons were opened, our official media were predicting instruments of torture and all the other accoutrements of a Gothic novel.
Riding the Red Horse
Refusal to fight may be cowardice and treason that darkens the soul of a single man, but the opposite mistake—an impetuous and reckless decision to make unnecessary war—may cost the lives of millions.
Metaphysical Conservatives, Conclusion
We have to deal with historical man, not the abstract man projected by libertarian economists, Marxist-Straussian theorists, or city-on-a-hill religious fanatics. Conservatives should always be on guard against the presumption that they have all the answers.
Metaphysical Conservatives, Part One of Two
These musings on metaphysics and property, here revised and corrected, were first published in a magazine, when there was a magazine where such foolishness could be printed.
Poem: North of Arezzo
A poem written long ago in a style and vein that might have pleased the subject, Peter Russell.
The American Freak Show
Every morning in Rome, I scanned the America news from my cellular telephone, and, as Donald Trump’s cabinet appointments rolled by, I felt as if I were watching a parade of freaks
Living Backwards
Last night I said good by to our last guests but one. I greeted the group In Pisa on the afternoon of the third. We had by then been in Italy since October 22.
