The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Fleming / On the House

31 Jul, 2020

Homer Against the Iconoclasts

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This is the opening lecture of the Fleming Foundation’s 2020 Seminar on Homer–held in the teeth of a government shutdown on the freedoms of speech and assembly and of the political correctness being imposed by mob rule and insurrection. Thomas Fleming provides an overview of the Greek reverence for religious and national symbols and contrasts the piety and respectfulness of the ancient Greeks with the irrational and hate-inspired vandalism of contemporary America.

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29 Jul, 2020

More on the Masked Avengers

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A FB friend I wish I knew personally reposted my observations on masks. I thought about responding to the rather shrill responses, but it would be bad taste to insert myself into his discussion, so… I don’t wish to stick my oar into Bob Alpert’s discussion, but I did include a proviso for medical necessity, which I meant also to cover, obviously, people in regular contact with decrepit old people like me. Our son, in his late 30’s, was talking to me on FaceTime, from Chapel Hill, when someone across the street–about 30 feet away, tried to shame him for...

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29 Jul, 2020

Trump on the Couch

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You have to laugh at politics or you’ll collapse in a corner and start babbling like Joe Biden. A recent comedy fest has been the book by President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump (MT), trashing him

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27 Jul, 2020

A Painful but Necessary Digression

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an exclusively deductive political theorist will, with Rousseau, “begin by setting aside the facts” and quickly racing over one pons asinorum after another, declare that all property is theft and marriage, along with private property and “the state,” historical inventions made by tyrannical male capitalists plotting to subjugate the human race.