Take Five: Italy Takes the Lead on Immigration, Part I
The Italian government is standing up to pressures from the EU to take in refugees that will not be allowed into France and Germany….
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Revisiting the Road to Serfdom
Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 The Road to Serfdom is firmly established as one of those books you’re supposed to read. But on the spectrum of works about economics, it probably falls more on the Wealth of Nations and Das Kapital side than on the Economics in One Lesson or even Freakonomics side. If its style and language appear somewhat dated, that’s because it was published in 1944. It is also focused on conditions to be found in prewar England and Germany, which takes the book into questions of not just economics but politics too. Yet Hayek’s book has stood the test of time, because its key messages are not constricted by...
Grillin’ with Garret: The Best Revenge, Episode 16
Grillin’ with Chef Garret Fleming, Rex Scott, and Dr. Fleming on The Best Revenge.
Original Air Date: October 11, 2018
Show Run Time: 30 minutes
Show Guest(s): Garret Fleming
Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming, Rex Scott
Wednesday’s Child: Hail Schism!
On the last day of August a momentous event took place, a historic meeting of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople with his Moscow counterpart. Prompted by that encounter was yesterday’s convening of the Holy Synod, which will conclude its deliberations and publish its resolutions tomorrow. A great new schism is in the offing, undoubtedly good news for all true Orthodox believers.
Life–Right or Duty? Part 2: From Under the Rubble: Episode 34
Original Air Date: October 9, 2018 Show Run Time: 18 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott Continuation of Life–Right or Duty? Part 1 The Fleming Foundation · From Under the Rubble, Episode 34: Life–Right or Duty? Part 2 From Under the Rubble℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2018. All Rights are Reserved.
Antifa and AltRight
These criminal rioters are playing from the same script, but it was not written by George Soros–though he may have bought the current rights to it–but by the revolutionaries in 1848 and, more particularly, by the Communist terrorists of the 1920’s, who tried took over Hungary and tried to take over Germany and Italy. If you want to understand how Mussolini–a comparatively benevolent despot–and the far from benevolent Hitler–came to power, all you need to know is that it was facilitated by Leftist terrorism.
How to Read a Poem: Autodidact, Episode 2
In this episode of the Autodidact, Dr. Fleming takes on the often-requested question of how to read a poem. He examines a few lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost through better-known lenses like rhyme and meter, but also lesser-known ones like anaclasis, elision, and assonance.
Wednesday’s Child: The Feasting Eye
Exult, rejoice! What better way to celebrate eyesight regained, or at least not yet irretrievably lost, than by eating ice cream? At any rate, that’s what my wife was saying as she dragged me to the “tenth edition” of something called the “Sherbeth” Festival del Gelato Artigianale,
Take Five: Kavanaugh Chaos, Part Two
Whether Ford is lying or merely delusional, her claims are entirely irrelevant.
Kavanaugh Battle Is About Abortion
I wish the controversy over confirming Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been about his court decisions on executive power, which I believe grant the chief executive too much authority. Instead, Democrats emphasized their prevailing issue, abortion. Of course, they say it’s about the unsubstantiated allegations against what he did when he was 17, or a bar fight in college. But if you listen to them, it’s really about abortion.
