The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
“This is all very well,” I can hear some readers saying, “but it is a bit generic. Other than opposing feminism and Marxism—which is something, I suppose—it doesn’t get us much a a program for action. In particular, these general principles of human nature are even more general than Aristotle’s notion of Natural Justice which, unlike fire that burns the same in Greece and Persia, varies to some degree from people to people.” I agree that we have only reached the threshold. To construct a specifically European-American Conservatism, we’d have to take account of particular principles and institutions that have...
Fleming and Scott continue their search for the meaning and implications of fascism and anti-fascism. Original Air Date: September 15, 2017 Show Run Time: 12 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott The Fleming Foundation · From Under the Rubble, Episode 16: Fascism, a Primer, Part 2 From Under the Rubble℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2017. All Rights are Reserved.
Nuke North Korea? That’s what’s demanded by Ralph Peters in the New York Post in his article, “The moral answer to North Korea threats: Take them out!” His “morality”: “Better a million dead North Koreans than a thousand dead Americans.” He even insists, “We cannot allow moral relativism to butcher Americans,” although if anybody is a “relativist,” it’s him. He writes, “The fundamental reason our government exists is to protect our people and our territory. Everything else is a grace note. And the words we never should hear in regard to North Korea’s nuclear threats are ‘We should’ve done something.’”...
Desmond and I were for a time neighbors when I lived in London, and one really comes to know a person when one’s drains clog up. We used to lunch together – Desmond was the only acquaintance whom I encouraged to take me to Indian restaurants, as he was born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, and knew the best places this side of the Thames – and it was refreshing to have as my vis-à-vis a man who made me feel like an adept of teetotalism. Before pudding he would finish a bottle of Scotch, of which I had claimed...
Dr. Thomas Fleming and Rex Scott search for particles of truth among the rubbish of the media. Original Air Date: September 13, 2017 Show Run Time: 25 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott The Fleming Foundation · From Under the Rubble, Episode 15: Fascism, a Primer, Part 1 Transcript available now for Charter Subscribers and a la carte purchase. From Under the Rubble℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2017. All Rights are Reserved.
In this episode of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Trifkovic discusses the capitulation of Trump to the establishment and what that means for interactions in North Korea, Venezuela, and Russia. Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: September 11, 2017 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner The Fleming Foundation · Trifkovic on the Capitulation of Trump: Foreign Affairs, Episode 5: September 2017 The Fleming Foundation Presents Foreign Affairs℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2017. All Rights are Reserved.
Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott (his Gen-X co-host) discuss why the Media Establishment hates the President for all the right reasons and what it says about them. Original Air Date: September 7, 2017 Show Run Time: 36 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott The Fleming Foundation · From Under the Rubble, Episode 14: Hating Donald Trump From Under the Rubble℗ is a Production of the Fleming Foundation. Copyright 2017. All Rights are Reserved.
Last week a reader complimented my parody of “preternaturally American” English, a patois favored not only by gum-chewing schoolgirls and their future husbands, but also by demagogues of every persuasion, notably Russian propagandists broadcasting to the West. A key element of its sentence structure is the word “like,” at times roughly equivalent to the traditional locution “that is to say,” but most often an interjection signaling approximation, relation, or equivalence. It occurs to me that the almost universal acceptance of this word in its neologistic role has a significance that runs deeper than mere misuse of language. It is to...
There have been two times when I though a presidential nominee by one of the two major parties was so hawkish America could be pushed into a war of annihilation with Russia. One was last fall with Hillary Clinton, who by all accounts was the most hawkish member of the Obama administration, plumping hard for the Afghan “surge,” the 2011 attack on Libya that destroyed that country and sent millions of refugees streaming into Europe, the destabilization of Syria, etc. The other was in 2008 with John McCain, a man obsessed with pushing wars almost everywhere, in particular in...
Most political/ideological movements are defined more by what the movement opposes than by what it supports. Jacobins were a bit fuzzy about their Golden Age vision of a restored Roman Republic, but they were pretty clear about whom they wanted to kill. (By the way, one easy way of distinguishing a wholesome religion or religious movement from a mere sect is that sectarians tend to define and name themselves according to their leaders and spend an enormous amount of time destroying what previous generations have created. Iconoclasts and progressives act more or less like ISIS and the Communist Party.) Conservatives...
