June Birthdays Part 2
Pancho Villa, Dean Martin, Francis Crick, Judy Garland, Ben Jonson, Gene Wilder,
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
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
Europe’s Stake in the US Presidential Election
The question that is looming before the world is this: Who in America—and in the West as a whole—is going to be represented by the 46th President of the United States? If President Trump is reelected, the winners will be the Christian–mostly conservative–patriots all over the West…
Slavery and the Black Family
Here in America, white and black children often are taught to call a family friend aunty or uncle, while in the South some form of Maum/Mom was often used by polite white children to show respect for an elderly black woman. Kindness and good manners are not racist
Whining the Time Away
I too get as disgusted with my Irish-American relatives for their whining as I am tired of every other race and ethnicity whining about its problems. I once met a Hungarian pastor who piously told me–this was in Zagreb–that although everyone else in the Balkans had beaten up on some other group, the Hungarians were entirely free of imperialism. He was counting on my ignorance of Balkan history.
Wednesday’s Child: Bolshie Dames
In today’s totalitarian Russia, women are in the vanguard of political repression, and the funny thing is that, were I to paint portraits of some of them, the gentle reader would doubtless be able to relate their traits to his own experience and recognize in one of them the figure of the woman who runs the music department of a college near his house…
The Old Normal is Alive and Well in Paris
I’ve spent my entire life in countries with unrestricted freedom of movement. Not only did those countries let me go where I wanted, whenever I wanted, as long as I wasn’t breaking laws, the countries were indifferent to my location on a given day at a given time.
The Second Phase of Revolution—Rule of the Red Guards
American society is now in a revolutionary situation similar to the early events of the French and Russian Revolutions. It is a classic Leninist scenario.
