The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Sickbed Whispers
Still abed, and come nightfall thoughts swarm uncontrollably, at times to the tune of the Lord Chancellor’s song from Iolanthe……
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For over a decade I have been working on a lecture series about the mind of the ancient Greeks. I have gone through several titles–The Greek Mind, The Greek Conservative Mind, The Aboriginal Greeks–and have not yet settled on one of them.
Alienation of Affections: 13 min Podcast with Dr. Fleming and Rex
The People’s Republic of California, in its response to the LA fires, is a textbook case of globalism: To the citizens, it is always “easy to be hard.”
Wednesday’s Child: A Light Delirium
In the days after New Year’s I was sick as a dog. The virus – Australian, I was told – overcame Palermo with a respiratory collapse unseen since the Covid debacle…
Apocryphal Wisdom 15-17
“Solomon” continues his sermon against idolatry but with the declaration that God loves his people to whom he will show mercy to the sinners:
The Burning of Los Angeles
Looking at photographs and watching video of Los Angeles on fire, I could not help thinking of Nathaniel West’s 1939 novel, The Day of the Locust.
Civil War, II
Any fight, whether it is a barroom brawl or a global war, requires at least two parties. The first task at hand, if we are going to act on the premise that we are in a civil war, is to identify the principal antagonists.
Greek I, Chapter 2
This chapter continues the presentation of O-declension nouns, with particular attention to accents.
