Take Five: Lessons Too Late in Learning
A podcast in which we begin to ask what lessons are to be learned from the Panic Virus
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Some March Birthdays
Botticelli and Michelangelo, Amerigo Vespucci, Sam Houston and Bob Wills, Marcus Aurelius and Kenneth Grahame, Bud Abbott and Rob Roy, Gregory La Cava, Micky Dolenz and Yuri Gagarin….
Wednesday’s Child: Sicilian Defense 2
Some years ago I used to joke, with reference to my own character, that as a white heterosexual male with formidable conservative credentials I was destined to die of AIDS in Africa while fighting for socialism. It is not that my character is perverse, or that I think one thing and do quite another, it is simply that extreme opposites are strangely congruent and I have always been drawn to their invariant properties.
Some Junk I Posted on FB Today…
I used to have a Greek friend from Alexandria. Alex was a businessman who became a professor of business. He used to say you couldn’t argue with communists, because after you had refuted every argument of theirs from A to Z, they’d say, “What about A?” as if it had never been discussed. It is the problem with all ideologies, and I do mean all, including especially anti-communism.
The Breaking of Nations, Part II: A Look Back at the 1990’s
Then let us look back together at the last decade of the rotten old Millennium, a thousand years of treason against human equality. It was an age of white male villains who subjugated women, tortured the differently gendered, enslaved Africans, murdered and raped the peaceful followers of Mohammed, vilified and plundered the harmless Mongols who, in search of peace and prosperity, tried to make their way into Europe.
The Economic Consequences of the Coronavirus
I generally have been supportive of President Trump’s economic policies. His tax cuts and regulation reductions have been crucial in sustaining prosperity. But he has made a couple of mistakes I have been meaning to write about. With the virus infecting the world, now is a good time.
Homer: Episode 1
In this episode, Dr. Fleming explains the purpose of this series and how the Greeks read Homer: both as scripture and as history.
Heroes and Villains, Number One: Julius Caesar, part 1
Most of the history we learned in school is on par with the news we get from CNN, and in podcast this series we shall be reexamining some of the great heroes and/or villains of the past 3000 years.
Wednesday’s Child: Sicilian Defense
I was intending to say nothing more of the plague, except to poke fun at it now and again for being such a pathetic contender for the title of the Black Death – much the way a book by somebody like Henry Miller might aspire to the eminence of the Great American Novel – but, as the gentle reader will presently see, I have succumbed. The Great American Novel, by the way, is in my humble opinion You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up, written in 1938 by an Englishman named Eric Knight and known to millions of...
