The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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FF / Free Content

12 Apr, 2021

Sloth, Spandex, and Goose Cassoulet-A Neophyte’s Hunting Adventure, Part One

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I have a chronic reluctance to get up before dawn to perch myself in a tree-stand at first light in the middle of deer season, but, as I faced  the final week of hunting,  my sloth yielded to an insatiable venison-jones which drove me, regardless of moon phase or feeding schedule, temperature or precipitation, to go out early every morning of that final week, shivering in wind and rain, before work hoping for the arrival of a doe into my kill zone.

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Free Content

12 Apr, 2021

The South–and the Kennedy Brothers–Still Right, Part One of Two

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The first time I personally witnessed cowardice at high levels was upon the occasion of the first edition of The South Was Right being introduced into my high-school library.  In 1993 my father and I joined our local Major John Pelham Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in Jacksonville, Alabama. It was at a meeting of that camp that I spoke with a man (whose name I cannot recall) who told me he was a past principal of my school. He spoke to me about a new book by a pair of Louisiana twins that was a scholarly and...

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Feature / Podcasts

12 Apr, 2021

Take Five: The British Monarchy

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Americans seem divided on the British Royal Family. Hollywood adores Mr. and Mrs. Markle, while many populist conservatives complain that their antics should remind us why we rebelled in 1776. Looking for sanity in such a debate may be a futile exercise, but….

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Fleming / Free Content

12 Apr, 2021

The Seven: A Digression on Sex

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Greeks were not squeamish about discussing sexual matters, though their degree of frankness depended upon circumstance and genre:  What could be said in a comedy or put on a vase was not the same as the treatment of sex in tragedy or religious sculpture.

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Free Content

8 Apr, 2021

Lithuania. Why? by James Patrick

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At present Lithuania is a tiny Baltic country wedged between Latvia and a small Russian enclave on the Baltic and Poland, with Belorussia on the southeast. There are 2.8 million Lithuanians plus another 200,000 Lithuanian-speakers outside the country, a population about the size of Dallas if the suburbs are included.

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

7 Apr, 2021

Wednesday’s Child: The Point of the Needle

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The world is full of bad news, and most of it does not require a dedicated chronicler to record and analyze.  So one reads, for instance, how the music department of Oxford University announces that musical notation has not “shaken off its connection to its colonial past” and is “a slap in the face to some students,” while “musical skills should no longer be compulsory”  because the current focus “on white European music causes students of color great distress.”

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Olson

6 Apr, 2021

Classic French Silent Films

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For cinéastes of a historical bent, Kino Lorber’s 3-disc set Gaumont Treasures 1897–1913 is a pearl almost beyond price. It showcases the earliest development of narrative cinema in one of the most fertile of its seedbeds.