Take Five: Kavanaugh Chaos, Part Two
Whether Ford is lying or merely delusional, her claims are entirely irrelevant.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
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.
Take Five: Kavanaugh Chaos, Part I
This is no replay of the Clarence Thomas hearings. Even if it’s all true, Kavanaugh is guilty of being a teenage lout.
Ask Mr. Autodidact: Diagram Latin Sentences?
A Question from a young Latin teacher. Henle asks that the students learn to diagram sentences in Latin. How helpful do you think this visual division of grammatical parts is for early and early-intermediate students? Much depends on the sort of students you have and what you expect to achieve. Fr. Henle learned Latin before the Second World War, at a time when an analytical and structuralist approach was all the rage both in linguistics and in teaching English. While the earliest method of diagramming goes back to the late 1840’s, the system really took off when it was visually...
Religio Philologi: Why Did the Wedding Guest Remain Silent?
He says nothing, because there is nothing he can say. He has no excuse, because he has not conformed to the required custom and prefigures, therefore, those who hear the call to Christ but refuse to do what is required, such as seek baptism, go to Church, lead a life in accordance with the moral law He taught.
Thomas Fleming Makes Speaking Appearance in Michigan
Saturday, October 6, 2018
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Best Western of Okemos / Stadium Room
2209 University Park Dr, Okemos, MI 48864
Free Admission
Subsidized Illiteracy
This murder of English and logic is being practiced by academics throughout the 50 states. It results in a professor, testifying in the Senate, who has to ask what the word “exculpatory” means. It results in hundreds of thousands of self-styled intellectuals who ridicule a successful businessman-turned-President who has that particle of common sense they will never have
A League of Our Own, Part One
This essay on the Lega Nord was published in February of 1993, after I spend considerable time with members of the Lega and had secured a long interview (followed by subsequent briefer meetings) with Umberto Bossi. Now that the Lega is once again in the ruling coalition and facing the wrath of the EU for cracking down on Third World immigration, it seems a good time to take a second look.
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Life Lived without Law
Two unrelated events have connected themselves in my mind this week. My first story concerns a piece I read a couple of months ago about a priest in the diocese of Fall River, MA. He had begun his career as a seminarian at St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, MA, in the early 1990s. In his first-year there, the academic dean, one Fr. John Farrell, not only described one of his homosexual adventures to the whole first-year class, but “inappropriately touched” our student twice or, as we would say in the language of the law, assaulted him. He was not the only...
