Open Border Heresies
Why the immigration debate has been poisoned by cowardly pragmatists who avoid all the real issues… Podcast exclusive to Gold and Charter Members. Please Subscribe or Login for access.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Dante, Love, and Friendship: Christianity and Classical Culture, Episode 32
Continuing on the previous episode’s discussion of the Commedia as a journey made with “a little help from his friends,” Dr. Fleming expands on the ideas of friendship, whether you can be friends with someone who is not virtuous, whether his relationship with Vergil is considered a “friendship,” and the various “friends” Dante meets throughout his journey. Original Air Date: September 3, 2019 Show Run Time: 21 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner This Podcast is available for Silver subscribers and higher. Christianity and Classical Culture℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2019....
Autodidact: The Ancient Wisdom of Theognis
We are fortunate in having the poems of Theognis, a Megarian conservative aristocrat who lived through this period and sighed for the good old days.
Tulsi, Wang, Comey and the Rancid Ruling Elite
I call it the Rancid Ruling Elite because its main goal now is to destroy what’s left of Christian Civilization. Other names for it are the Deep State, the Establishment, Ike’s Military-Industrial Complex or, from the 60s, The System. Let’s look at some of the RRE’s recent actions. By far the best Democratic candidate for president is Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. Yet the RRE froze her out of the next debate, meaning her unique voice on foreign policy won’t get heard. Shouldn’t voters hear what she thinks about the possible deal Trump is working out with the Taliban to finally, after...
Wednesday’s Child: The Philosopher’s Fruit
It’s that time of year again. The doldrums of August is when the fig season is at its peak, and nobody from Syracuse to Cagliari wants to talk about anything but figs or to do anything other than consume them. “That time of year thou mayst in me behold,” as the poet said. The sonnet, as the gentle reader may remember, is a melancholy, nostalgic dirge, just the kind of bagatelle one imagines Wednesday’s Child whistling as he pours himself a glass of Hine’s Rare & Delicate. But in fact, few things on earth are mightier antidotes to grumpy nostalgia...
Podcast: The Demonization of Jeffrey Epstein
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Top Unconscious Election Issue Dates to 1949
Although I can’t prove it, I think an unconscious element in every presidential election is the fear a candidate might get us into a nuclear war. In my long career of voting for president, beginning with Ford/Carter in 1976, I certainly had a “gut loathing” of only two candidates I thought would be unstable and liable to lunge for the Nuclear Football and press the Button: John McCain, a Republican, in 2008, and Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, in 2016. I think a lot of voters shared that fear. There’s even a 1999 book, “The Gift of Fear and Other Survival...
Dante’s Moral Code, Part II: Christianity and Classical Culture, Episode 31
Continuing on the previous episode’s discussion of the Commedia as a journey made with “a little help from his friends,” Dr. Fleming expands on the ideas of friendship, whether you can be friends with someone who is not virtuous, whether his relationship with Vergil is considered a “friendship,” and the various “friends” Dante meets throughout his journey. Original Air Date: August 27, 2019 Show Run Time: 27 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner This Podcast is available for Silver subscribers and higher. Christianity and Classical Culture℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2019....
Hesiod and His World
The name of Hesiod was often coupled with that of Homer, though the two are different expressions of the Greek mind and temperament. While Homer writes of aristocratic warriors, Hesiod, in his surviving works, is more concerned with expounding rustic life and its values and with making coherent sense of the gods. As a Greek writer, he was the first agrarian but also the first theologian and the godfather of philosophy.
The Autodidact’s Reading List: General Introduction
This reading list (very much a work in progress) is offered in the hope that it will help families, schools, and people of all ages to read some of the really valuable books in the American, British, European, and classical traditions.
