The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Wednesday’s Child: King Kongtext

I realize the above pun leaves much to be desired, but I was in an exceptionally jolly mood last week. I had come across a ridiculous article in The Atlantic which straightaway I knew would give my next post its subject and meaning, and the headline above it was “Vladimir Putin’s Waning Tolerance for Art.” Gosh, I thought, mentally addressing the author of the article, you say waning tolerance for art like it’s a bad thing.

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Challenge of the Week: What Was Kyle Thinking?

You’ve just been hired as PR agent for Kyle Rittenhouse.  Evil-minded reporters on Left and Right seem to be asking the same question:  Rittenhouse went to Kenosha with an AR15 to take a stand for law and order in a riot orchestrated in part by Black Lives Matter, whose leaders have been threatening mayors and police departments across the country.  As one BLM spokesman just declared, when asked about the killing of five people at a Waukesha Christmas Parade, “It sounds like the revolution has started.”  How do you squareKyle’s support for lawfulness with his support for an organization inciting...

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Help Us Send the Prisoner On His Way

Dr. Fleming and I will be recording a final episode on the Prisoner next week and we want to hear from YOU! We’ve spent a good part of the year recording our thoughts on this series and we want to end our discussion by hearing from those of you who have listened to all or even some of the episodes we’ve spent hours recording. Let us know your questions, thoughts, comments, episode rankings, etc.  Post them in comment form here and I’ll make sure to incorporate them into next week’s episode.