Ides of March Lecture 2021: Liberty and Property
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The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Two Gentlemen of the Rona
Gentle reader, I will be frank. There are no two gentlemen of Verona in my story, and the one and only gentleman I dilate upon rather belongs to Sicily than to the north of Italy. But ever since my salad days as a jobbing journalist in London I have envied my yellow press colleagues writing headlines of the “Headless Body in Topless Bar” variety….
Septem TFF Series Septem, Part I: vv. 1-77
Eteocles’ response to the Scout is extremely puzzling. He calls for divine aid, first from the gods who guard Thebes, and second from the Curse (ara) and the mighty Revenge Fiend (Erinys) of his father Oedipus.
A Modest Response to Joe’s Immodest Proposal
President Biden and his supporters, ever eager to capitalize on human suffering, are once again calling for the disarming of America. The occasion of their renewed animus against the Second Amendment has been two shootings, both misreported in press accounts.
The Seven Against Thebes, II: Mythological Background
Let us turn to the story of the play, which draws upon the same mythological background as Sophocles Theban plays, written a generation later. The Seven is the third play of trilogy, a set of three plays, in this case, as in the Oresteia, forming a coherent and interrelated whole.
Wednesday’s Child: Pidgin Esperanto
I must’ve been staring at the sign over the restaurant in Via Roma for too long, because my wife pulled on my coat sleeve and asked if everything was all right. This is a new Japanese restaurant in Palermo, and like all new Japanese restaurants in Palermo it was started by the Chinese
The Next “Book”: Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, Part I Introduction
Aeschylus was known for the magnificence of his style and the power of his productions. His language is always challenging in Greek and difficult to render into English. Because of his power and occasional obscurity, he might be compared with Shakespeare, and in magnificence, I sometimes think of Richard Wagner as one of his better imitators, albeit a much shallower writer.
Podcast: The Lord’s Prayer #6
“Thy Will Be Done On Earth as It Is in Heaven.” What is “the will” and how is it to “be done”?
Biden Regime Politicizes Military
As a U.S. Army veteran, I’m disgusted by how the Biden regime is politicizing the U.S. military. It’s breaching the sharp delineation between civilian and military essential in a free country.
The Pentagon, backed by the lying media, is carpet-bombing Tucker Carlson, one of the few actual journalists left. He pointed out sending pregnant women into combat maybe isn’t such a great tactic
Your COVID Papers, Please!
People are justifiably worried that the government is going to impose a COVID passport as a requirement for travel and for maskless participation in public events. Of course it is going to happen for some good reasons and for far more bad. The only question is how to deal with the government.
