The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Fleming

5 Jan, 2021

Two Strains of Violence, Part One of Two

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For over 20 years, whenever  the US Congress is debating a stricter immigration law, hundreds of thousands Mexican-Americans take to the streets.  The demonstrators, often waving Mexican flags, demand rights for the illegals and accuse conservative Republicans of racism.  The substance of much of their complaint is that Mexicans, illegal as well as legal, have made an indispensable contribution to the American economy, and yet they are treated with disrespect and hostility. 

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Seiler

5 Jan, 2021

Clown Country

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America zooms – or Zooms – into 2021 the laughingstock of the world. The global Guarantor of Democracy, bombing foreign lands with allegedly faulty elections at the drop of a parasol, continues limping toward a January 5 dual election for U.S. Senators from Georgia, a January 6 possible validation or invalidation of the presidential election by Congress and a January 20 inauguration of somebody who might have won the November 3 election.

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Olson

3 Jan, 2021

Introduction to The Silents: The Classics

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Calling the best silent films classics seems both humdrum and pretentious. Humdrum, because we tend to call any old thing classic, regardless of its quality. Pretentious, because what are most often called classics are the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome that modeled for subsequent Western literature its genres, forms, and techniques. Old movies just don’t seem analogous in quality, at least, to the epics of Homer and Virgil, the dramas of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the picaresques of Apuleius and Petronius.

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Feature

2 Jan, 2021

A Christmas Story of Anterus Smith as told to Ched Rayson, Conclusion

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Coming out of his seclusion, Mickey  announced a monster meeting in a field outside of Chequamegon.  He did not have time to build a stage, but there was a nice little stream flowing through the field.  One side of the ground  was flat with room for hundreds of people to stand or spread out picnic blankets, and on the other side, there was a steep bank, which Mickey mounted, to make his pitch, which is why his speech has gone down in history as the “Sermon of the Mountebank.”  

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Feature / Fleming

1 Jan, 2021

Lincoln: A Lying Duplicitous Bigot

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This review of David Donald’s Lincoln ( New York and London: Simon & Schuster, 1996)  was commissioned and published by the Spectator (London),  for which I wrote with some frequency, once upon a time before the world ceased pretending to exist.

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

30 Dec, 2020

Wednesday’s Child: Nationalizing Birthright

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At first glance, abetting a healthy child with full connivance of the state to “change sex” seems to have nothing to do with Marx or socialism.  Considering the question more closely, however, we see that gender, like other human endowments, is a form of private property; that it is, in point of fact, a property; and that, along with money, land, and any other means of production, this property can and, a Marxist would argue, must be summarily expropriated.

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Fleming

29 Dec, 2020

A Humble and Modest Search for Clarity

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I do not believe that I am the only American who has been put off by hysterical rants about the end of the American way of life.   Almost everything I have come across, from articles in so-called conservative publications to blogposts to conversations with friends strikes me as based on very limited understanding, not just of history but of the basic meaning of words.  

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Feature / Fleming

29 Dec, 2020

Announcement: Return to Work

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My absence from Fleming.Foundation was initially due to Christmas and the arrival of two our our children, but the prolongation of inertia was the result of an intestinal disease that left most of the family fairly wasted.  It matches pretty well the classic symptoms of a noro-virus.  The departure of the virus–and the children–has made it possible to return to my labors