Category: FF
Westerns Episode 8: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
A singular movie among John Ford’s work, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance showcases the American West and questions narratives about heroes, politics, and America itself.Homework for next episode will be to watch Howard Hawks’ El Dorado.
Low-trajectory Aspirations
After the fall, we each have a predominate fault driven by physiology rather than merely psychology or external circumstances. The modern personality tests only weakly address this
Westerns Episode 7: Yojimbo (1961)
This next group of Westerns, from the 1960-1990 time period, starts with a perhaps unexpected entry: Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 Yojimbo, a film in dialogue with, and a major influence on, the Western genre.
Rights of Slaves, Slaves of Rights II: The Right to be Reeducated
Where in the world did people get the idea that children have the right to a free education provided by the state?
Poem: Godspeed to Tweed by Asa Pinch
This villanelle was written as a response to our lamentations on the state of men’s clothing.
Podcast: Prof. E.C. Kopff Podcast with John Yost, 13 Min.
This podcast on the importance of humane studies was recorded during the Fleming Foundation’s 2023 Summer School on The Wrong of Rights. In a week or so, the lectures will be on sale.
The Crisis is the Revolution
The censoring elites with their fact checkers on social media are not so much checking facts but sniffing for any opposing conceptual frameworks and filtering out anything that challenges the false worldview composed of false paradigms.
The All-American Super Bowl by Web Duboyce
Please do not allow your children to read this ill-natured and off-color post. The figures are not yet in, but if the predictions are correct, as many as 100 million people watched Super Bowl 2023. It is very reassuring to learn that everything is back to normal.
African Contributions to Civilization by Web Duboyce
I am extremely grateful for the movies and television in recent years for enlightening me about the contributions of black people to history.
