Jeremy Chiaroscuro Explains Advertising
I wanted to ask Mr. Chiaroscuro about some of the tricks he had used to propel faceless nonentities into the Senate and up to the White House.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Cracks in the Quarantine
Two weekends ago the weather was particularly lovely and, while I was out for a Sunday stroll in my neighborhood, what I had already been sensing over the previous weeks became crystal clear: Many Parisians were not abiding by the draconian rules of quarantine that had been laid down in March,
Introducing Jeremy Chiaroscuro by MacMillan Ross
Jeremy Chiaroscuro is one of the most important men in American politics. Not that he is a politician. Jeremy wants to be a puppet master and not one of the puppets whose only qualification is an insipid face and a case of hairspray. Like his one-time rival Carl Rogue, he was a protégé of the legendary Grant Blackpool, who until his premature death pioneered the science of hardball politicking.
Wednesday’s Child: Fringe Benefits
The Kremlin has seized the opportunity to advance the plan of tagging the population – “bio objects,” if the gentle reader recalls my post of July 11 last year, is the official term on the government’s websites – to turn its citizens into what we might call “smartserfs,” eventual inmates of a “smartgulag.”
Utopia Limited: Episode 1
In this inaugural episode of Utopia Limited Dr Fleming traces first the introduction of Utopian literature and the necessary “myth of progress” which led to the first dystopian literature, and how the genre is distinct from science fiction.
WHEN THE SAINTS AREN’T COMMUNING
One of the advantages of any “crisis,” (real or manufactured, grave or embellished) is that we get to observe how it is handled by various people and institutions. As Covid Craziness continues to engulf our society while our fearless leaders attack it one press conference at a time, Christians should examine how the Church is responding.
Fake News Fakers
There’s nothing more self-righteously unctuous than high-level media figures blathering about their virtues. Here’s Andy Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, “Journalism is under attack from coronavirus and the White House. But we’re winning.”
More April Birthdays
Martyn Greene, Peter Frampton, Stephen Douglas, Roy Orbison, Anthony Trollope, Walter de la Mare
A Brief Outline of the Revolution
In its early phases, this revolution, under the guise of a restoration of classical learning and civilization, became known as the Renaissance, and, as it gathered steam and changed direction, new names were applied, such as Enlightenment and Modernism
Clueless, Cloroxed Liberals
It used to be the news media at least tried to be serious. Now they’re just stupid. The latest: President Trump supposedly said a cure might be injecting people with Lysol and other cleaners. No, he didn’t.
