The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Comfortable Words from a Skeptic
One of FDR’s many mercenary writers penned a line that is quoted often but perhaps not enough: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” That’s obviously not true in any literal sense. As the tornado comes barreling down the street and is about to slam into my house and take us all to Oz,. fear is not the main problem, but in responding to the twin panics, ginned up by government and their media, fear is the greatest problem. A friend recently posted something someone wrote him, comparing our current problems with the Holocaust and used as...
Wednesday’s Child: Letter from Naples
The barbarians are near, we feel their corrosive breath on our necks, and unlike their predecessors these new ones cannot be absorbed…
What I Learned From My First Flight Since Lockdown
I arrived back in Paris the day before lockdown in March of this year. I had cut short a business/ski trip in Bulgaria under advice from friends, though by Monday night, as I arrived back into Paris with all the shops in the airport already closed, it looked like wisdom.
Free Ghislaine Maxwell
The FBI’s arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell has been applauded nearly everywhere. It is one thing on which the phony left and the phony right can agree. Jeffrey Epstein was the devil, and Ms Maxwell was his madame.
Systemic Sexism
I am not just angry. No, “angry” does not begin to describe my outrage. For 400 years, my people have been oppressed and living in fear. And this injustice has been virtually ignored while we continue to suffer torment and mistreatment.
Wednesday’s Child: Will They Ever Learn?
It is curious that Theodore Roosevelt’s phrase about speaking softly and carrying a big stick is the progenitor of “big stick foreign policy,” though in fairness it should really have given us a totally opposite doctrine, “speak softly foreign policy.”
June Birthdays Part 2
Pancho Villa, Dean Martin, Francis Crick, Judy Garland, Ben Jonson, Gene Wilder,
BLM Cries Foul!
BLM people are complaining that all sorts of radicals are trying to horn in on the action. According to Andy Vaught, crack investigative reporter for SNO….
Wednesday’s Child: Letter from Venice
A friend wrote that he had been lent a sailboat and would be moored in Venice over the weekend, and would I want to dine in his company? With the insouciance born of longstanding habit I replied that I would with pleasure, if only he coughs up the money I need to get there
