The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
I’ve spent my entire life in countries with unrestricted freedom of movement. Not only did those countries let me go where I wanted, whenever I wanted, as long as I wasn’t breaking laws, the countries were indifferent to my location on a given day at a given time.
American society is now in a revolutionary situation similar to the early events of the French and Russian Revolutions. It is a classic Leninist scenario.
In this episode of Off the Shelf, Dr. Fleming and Stephen shamelessly plug the newest publication from the Foundation, A Thousand Years of Jihad. Both Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss their reflections on the essays contained therein, authored by Dr. Brownlow and Dr. Fleming. The Barbary Pirates, Janos Hunyadi, and Lord Byron are just a few of the cast of characters.
Do black lives matter? Clearly, if the story of the Rwandan genocide to which I alluded here a couple of weeks ago is any indication, they do not.
Fourth Generation War is non-state warfare. It’s when the state breaks down, or just becomes so weak it loses the monopoly of force.
All this chatter about reform or even revolution might sound romantic and even intriguing to some, especially in the liberal arts departments on university campuses, but the truth of these disruptions is to be found elsewhere, in dark rooms, far away from indiscreet eyes, in government agencies.
The country is lost and the civilization is dead, but Christians and moral non-believers still have to accept the obligation to do no harm and to uphold what decent order there is.
just as there is a deep state, there is also a deep church that betrays its duties and forswears its proper commitments before God.
If Leftists really cared about Black lives, thye’d be out protesting the thugs who are far more likely than the cops to kill members of their own race.
Lincoln’s admirers have said that he was motivated by a commitment to equality and a respect for African American slaves. The unpalatable truth is that Lincoln’s racial attitudes are closer to those of the KKK than to those of the NAACP. As early as 1837 Lincoln argued that “The Congress of the United States has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states.” His Emancipation Proclamation was a strictly political act designed to appeal to European liberals. In fact, it only applied to slaves outside Lincoln’s jurisdiction, not to slaves held in...