The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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All Paid Subscribers / Seiler

4 Nov, 2019

Is Trump Negotiating with the Deep State?

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A president in office can do only two main things; any more, and he divides his attention and gets nothing done, like Jimmy Carter, who corrected the grammar of the papers submitted to him. For example, Reagan revived the economy and stared down the Soviet Union in the Cold War Endgame. Trump’s two things are ending, or at least reducing, the foreign wars and expensive global empire; and getting control of our borders. The Deep State doesn’t want either.

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

30 Oct, 2019

Wednesday’s Child: Yet More Loners

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Gustav Mahler once said that if the public thinks a conductor’s tempo too slow, what he ought to do is to slow it down. Such, anyway, is Wednesday’s Child’s feeble justification for persisting with the theme of the past two weeks, which is the plight of the socially anomalous child East and West.  The occlusive membrane separating the home from the state, if one exists and is not ruptured by intrusion of the latter, is in most cases a good thing, indeed one of the condiciones sine quibus non of child rearing.  But then, of course, there are cases when...

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Brownlow / Feature

30 Oct, 2019

Swamp-Rats Revisited

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When over a year ago now I wrote on: “A Nest of Swamp Rats,” I treated the leading actors in the pursuit of the Democrats’ Russian hoax as exemplars of institutional or bureaucratic mediocrity, of opportunism, arrogance, and stupidity.  Apart from a mention of John Brennan’s youthful Communism, I credited none of them with anything as risky as thinking.

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Feature / Fleming

29 Oct, 2019

Paleoconservatism, Part Six: Three Cheers for Free Markets, Zero for Capitalism

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The family is not the only natural social institution  that is being undermined by the modern state.  Men are by nature competitive, and they created war and games, politics and the marketplace, to satisfy their need to contend for status, wealth and power.  One of leftism’s greatest successes has been to adopt the social language of Christianity and to transfer it from enclosed households (which are naturally communal and socialist) to the open fields where men do battle with each other.    This is a point I made briefly in The Morality of  Everyday Life and which has been expanded...

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FF / Free Content / Heiner

28 Oct, 2019

Stop (talking about) Brexit

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I’m often told that people “didn’t know what they voted for,” or were “stupid,” or are, “as everyone knows, racist.” Fascinatingly, as far as I know, stupid people, racist people, and even people who are lied to get equal votes in a democracy.