The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Greek I.24 WITH AUDIO and WRITE IN GREEK
Middle and Passive Voice, Deponent Verbs, and Genitive of Agent
Wednesday’s Child: A View to a Kill
I am quite fond of political assassinations, though not in totalitarian countries, of course. I like to witness them in countries that actually have some kind of body politic…
Charlie Kirk, may he rest in peace
Many people on the right are saying that the murder of Charlie Kirk marks the beginning of a Civil War. They are wrong on two counts.
Studying War
I promised to serialize parts or all of the last chapter of the sequel to The Reign of Love. This chapter deals with the ethics of war. The photograph was taken about two weeks ago in Billings Park, Superior, Wisconsin, a half mile from where I lived as a child.
Wednesday’s Child: Letter from Venice
My son Nikolai, the grownup one, reports from Venice, where he lives on one of the islands, describing a visit to an exhibition at the Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco.
Booth Tarkington, Great American Novelist
This is a revised and amplified version of some old writings that go back ultimately to a talk I gave at our second Second Summer School. On a personal note, I first read Tarkington, so I recall, at the age of eleven or twelve
