The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: The Bar Fly
Chiasso, the cozy little bar I frequent in the old town, tucked away behind Piazza Borsa… But let us not be overhasty in judgment.
Westerns Episode 19, The Long Riders (1980)
In this final episode in the series, Dr. Fleming looks at Walter Hill’s 1980 film The Long Riders, which offers a look-in at the James-Younger gang and their exploits in Missouri and elsewhere.
Putting on the Ritz Crackers, Conclusion
No one today, it seems, can pursue a hobby, escape a vice, or suffer a tragedy without submitting himself to the ministrations of “professional” experts.
Puttin’ On the Ritz Crackers
I used to take some care in cutting and lighting my cigars, but the sight of the aficionados at work, many of whom have less taste in cigars than the affected young man, has driven me to biting the end off and snatching a light from a pack of cheap matches or from the kitchen stove.
Podcast: America From Pete Rose to Kamala Harris
America, once the land of opportunity for ambitious men is now dedicated to incompetence.
Wednesday’s Child: Curriculum Vitarum
In Sicily they say a cat has seven lives. I am now on my seventh, and the thought of it no more perturbs me than it does the tenacious feline.
Wooden Heads and Stony Hearts
The abortion question is being raised by both sides in the shadow boxing performance we call presidential elections. No other question so exemplifies Sam Francis’ characterization (borrowed from the father of Neoconservatism, Benjamin Disraeli) of our two national factions as the Evil Party and the Stupid Party.
Ray Goes to the Movies at Home: Introduction to the Fifties
The 1950s are often called the American decade, a time when the United States ruled the roost militarily, economically, and culturally. Hence, the title of this list of my favorite movies.
How Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Invasion USA
The Daily Mail has just published an article by Todd Bensman, who has been in Colombia investigating the U.S. taxpayer funded system of importing Third World immigrants into the United States.
