The Rights of Slaves and the Slaves of Rights, Part 1: Thug Rights
In this Podcast, 18 Minutes, the topic is the Flash Mob Rule that now controls major American cities.
Category: Fleming
Reading Homer, Iliad IV Updated 08/30
In the fourth book of the Iliad, the gods begin to reveal their great power, though it is neither unlimited nor unanimous. It is very easy to misread their role.
The Worst Things Since Sliced Bread II
In the first installment, we talked a great deal–as the title would suggest–about food and food technology. There is an unlimited number of topics, ranging from gardening to travel to the virtualization of reality. This week I propose clothing.
Jack Smith, Kangaroo Courtier
Donald Trump wonders how a lowlife like Jack Smith can justify his illegal surveillance. It’s a fair question. How did an American lawyer get the idea that he was entitled to ignore the American legal system in order to gain a conviction?
The Editor Interviewed by Greek Newspaper
A visitor to Athens, Thomas Fleming agreed to meet me and the result was the interview you are about to read, which gives answers to major issues that concern modern man in the West
Mankind’s Dead End
Many writers—and I among them—have compared modern man’s acceptance of abortion with the infanticidal cults of Carthaginians and their Phoenician ancestors, whose rites are so often condemned in the Old Testament. This is to some extent unfair to the Phoenicians.
The Worst Things Since Sliced Bread
Americans were taught to prefer a breadlike product with excessive moisture and lots of air whipped into the batter. The result –bread that is nothing like bread–is one of the most sinister contributions made by the 20th century.
Of Cabbages and Kings
An ever-expanding number of judges and members of representatives of the government media are giving Donald Trump the treatment reserved for designated regime traitors.
Cultural Conservatism
A few years back, when the air was fresh and the world was new, some of us thought that the election of Ronald Reagan was only the beginning of the beginning of “morning in America.” It is a common mistake. Some decades have an identity for those who set their mark upon them. In periods like the 1890’s, the 1920’s, and the 1960’s, while most people went about their business of working, living, and dying, if you were a decadent poet in London, a stockbroker or novelist in New York, a student at Berkeley, Madison, or Columbia, it was an age of gold.
This is the 1987 piece cited by Jerry Salyer.
