The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: In Them Thar Hills
Alexander Herzen, writing in London in the middle of the century before last, observed that the English are the world’s only nation in whose veins iron has not yet been substituted with gold.
Italian II, Unit II, Lesson 6
Four very common irregular verbs whose infinitives end in -are, phrases pertaining to time, numbers, feelings.
Poems of Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion was a master of verse and beautiful composer of the Elizabethan period. Known mostly for his sometimes racy love songs, he had many voices and moods. Be sure to listen to Alfred Deller’s moving performance.
POB II.9 Collective Violence, Part I
I have been dragging my heels too long and need to finish the second volume of Properties of Blood. As a stimulus to action, I am going to be posting every week some selections. This discussion, which will be in several parts, is devoted to collective violence.
Laying The Ghosts of Southern Nationalism
This is an uncut version, minus adlibs, of a talk given at a program given by the Abbeville Institute in Columbus, Georgia, February 20-23, 2025. It has been hastily revised and corrections are welomed.
Wednesday’s Child: Sweet Dregs
The other day I noticed that I had unlearned to hold a pen. The instrument of my profession, which once seemed an anatomically correct extension of my hand, is now an awkward, unwieldy, alien object.
Greek I. 8 Imperfect Indicative, Dative of Manner
In this lesson, we are introduced to the imperfect tense in the active voice.
Charity Begins at Home
The worst ethical mistake made by Enlightenment “intellectuals” was their embrace of the abstraction of global citizenship. We big-brained apes are slow learners, and it takes most of us a long time to acknowledge the humanity of strangers.
Democrats Self-Immolating on Cuts by DOGE
I continue to be amused by how out of touch Democrats are on DOGE, Musk and all the cuts being made. The Dems love “waste, fraud and abuse,” as the phrase has it.
