Rumors of War: Podcast Part 1 of 2
In this first part, Dr. Fleming and Rex dissect the dishonest and degrading rhetoric of the American debate on Hamas’s terrorist attack.
In this first part, Dr. Fleming and Rex dissect the dishonest and degrading rhetoric of the American debate on Hamas’s terrorist attack.
Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss a movie in an entirely different mode from the Man with No Name Trilogy and even High Plains Drifter and beyond: the sympathetic-to-the-Confederacy film The Outlaw Josey Wales.
It has been 50 years since the last general war in the Middle East, the Yom Kippur War, which had been preceded by serious conflicts between Israel (backed by the US) and the Palestinians, Egyptians, and Russian
In Ephesians 4:22-27, Paul instructs Christian converts to live according to the faith. He specifically cites the need to tell the truth, control anger, and work productively (rather than steal):
In this episode Stephen and Dr Fleming agree to disagree on the good, the bad, and the ugly in perhaps Leone’s most celebrated film.
This a much revised section of a chapter (“The Demands of Blood”) of Volume II of Properties of Blood. It is the first of a series of chapters in which vengeance–its nature, its institutions, its justifications–are discussed. It begins by taking up one of the oldest and still most thorny ethical dilemmas: Why do good men suffer, and what can be done about it? It is the first step in laying the groundwork for understanding the violent anarchy into which American society has fallen and the possible means at our disposal for redressing the injustices.
What the pundits are missing is the real contest over which party can produce the most outrageously ridiculous member of Congress. Here at SNO we are calling it the Kanye West award.
A 5 Minute excerpt from the Fleming Foundation Summer Seminar: How justice is corrupted by “rights.” All Lectures available now at the website store.