The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Let’s Return to George Washngton’s Foreign Policy
The Cold War ended 30 years ago with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. That means it’s time to return to the non-interventionist foreign policy of our greatest president, George Washington.
Ukraine, Is Putin Insane?
Dr. Fleming and Rex talk the whys and wherefores of the war in Ukraine and the American media campaign of disinformation .
The Ukraine Delusion
Jonathan Swift famously denied that man was a rational animal and insisted that he was only capax rationis, capable of exercising reason but rarely taking the trouble to do so. What else an explain the repeated outbreaks of folly and delusion that have marked our history?
Autodidact: The Ancient Wisdom of Theognis
Surveys of Western Civ usually convey the impression that Greek literature was dominated by Athenians and their Ionian Greek cousins.
Time Reclaimed
Twice every year like clockwork, Americans turn briefly away from the iWatches and video screens to which they have committed their souls in order to take up that most pressing question of postmodern times: Is Daylight Savings Time a good thing?
Wednesday’s Child: To Bell the Cat
The task before me is daunting. More difficult yet than attempting to persuade the gentle reader that a Pax Ukrainiana is upon us, with merry paysans et paysannes frolicking in the evergreen groves of liberty beneath boughs laden with golden fruit.
A Letter to the Editor from The Alabamian
Tonight, I went to a political campaign event where state and local candidates or their representatives were meeting the public in my county. I spoke to a gubernatorial candidate, and a representative for another at the event, both Republican. I asked very superficial questions about how these two candidates felt about Southern heritage.
Ray Olson on the Movies: W. S. Van Dyke, Master of Momentum
Of the first generation of top Hollywood directors—Griffith, DeMille, Stroheim, Walsh, Curtiz, Chaplin, Dwan, Fleming, Brown, Lubitsch, Sternberg, Ford, Borzage, Vidor, Keaton, Hawks, Wellman, Capra, McCarey… W(oodbridge) S(trong) Van Dyke II (1889-1943) is the most unjustly forgotten and underrated.
Alternatives to Fake News on Ukraine War
“Truth is the first casualty of war” is an old saying, obviously true during the Ukraine War. I hate this war with a passion, but it’s still necessary to follow it because it reveals so much about the state of the world today, especially the regime that’s destroying my beloved America.
