The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Information on Greece 2025
It appears that we now have 15-20 more or less confirmed participants in the November trip to Greece. We have therefore contacted our Athenian travel agents, who own a hotel in Athens and provide buses and guides.
I Told You Russiagate Coup Was a Hoax Right When It Started in 2016
In addition to predicting President Trump’s victory in 2016, on Fleming.Foundation that year I called out Russiagate as the hoax it was and is.
Summer Poems
Four summer poems by A.E. Housman, the Welsh poet Edward Thomas, Robinson Jeffers, and Robert Louis Stevenson
Scott’s Ivanhoe Part II
The most striking feature of Ivanhoe is probably the depiction of the conflict between Saxons and Normans.
The Master Builder
The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.
The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.
Trump Turns Epsteingate into Watergate 2.0
President Richard Nixon wasn’t involved in the 1972 Watergate break-in of Democratic National Headquarters that led to him resigning in 1974. The problem was he ok’d the coverup. As he later said, “I handed them a sword, and they drove it in.”
Poetry: Douglas Young
This is one of Douglas Young’s few poems in English (as opposed to what he called Lallans, Lowland Scots), though it is also in German, French, and Doric Greek. Note the date: 1939.
Wednesday’s Child: North and South
The Feast of St. Rosalia, which a couple of days ago was celebrated in Palermo for the 401st time since the Church had assigned it to the plague-curing Saint, is above all a noisy affair.
Walter Scott: Ivanhoe, Part I
Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, published in 1818, took Britain by storm. As he explains in the preface he wrote for a later edition, he had begun to realize that the reading public, after enjoying nine Scottish novels in four years, was beginning to typecast the unknown “author of Waverley” as a Scottish localist
