The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Solzhenitsyn’s Wisdom
Few people have better understood the history and troublesome trajectory of the West and are more genuinely relevant to our life today. Perhaps younger readers might appreciate a little background since this great seer’s career has lapsed from public attention.
Can Trump Bring Peace in Our Time?
The theme of my articles here is peace. Because the alternative is nuclear war. It’s the main reason I loathed Biden, and whoever really was running his regime.
Wednesday’s Child: Who Needs Freedom?
My father used to tell me how, when he was a boy in the 1930’s, he came upon a cobbler plying his craft in Moscow. The man was an Azeri, quietly industrious like many of his race and, just as important, perennially sober.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Part I: The Kids Are Not All Right [sic]
In any decent society, patterns of deference are the foundation of the social order: the young defer to the old, females defer to males, parents defer to children. Any senior member who allows his juniors or inferiors to treat him with contempt or indifference is undermining the order and potentially rearing a sociopath who will prey upon his fellows.
Old Wine in New Bottles, Preface II
Most of us, when we were children, tried to explain away some deviation from parental norms on the grounds that “All the other kids are sporting a ducktail and wearing leather jackets or smoking dope and listening to Hendrix.”
Can Trump drag India and Pakistan Back From the Brink of Nuclear War?
You should be thankful President Trump is in the White House as nuclear powers India and Pakistan go at it in another war over the disputed province and a terrorist attack India blames on Pakistan.
