The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Fleming

2 Jan, 2024

Journalists and Other Liars, Part I

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Why do journalists lie?  I do not ask this question as a joke with a punchline waiting in the wings or even as an illustration of mankind’s general propensity to lie, cheat, and steal.  My question is intended to go to the heart of what journalism is, fundamentally: a “profession” in which men and women, without any particular skills or qualifications, spend their time at work making and repeating statements that they either know are untrue or, if they are so obtuse as not to know they are telling lies, they should be required to keep silent.

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Fleming / Free Content

2 Jan, 2024

The Latin of the Latin Mass: Conclusion

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The Holy Mass, as I have been trying to make clear,  is one of the greatest and most carefully composed artistic constructions in the history of human civilization. However, the object of this great art is not entertainment or even instruction, but the praise of God and the salvation of the participants.

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Fleming / Free Content

27 Dec, 2023

The Latin of the Latin Mass: The Pater Noster

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The Pater Noster is the greatest and most familiar prayer of the Church, taught to us by our Lord himself.  Incessant repetition of a prayer is a very good and necessary thing, but if we are not careful, we may cease to ponder on it.  There are many fine commentaries by St. John Chrysostom, St. Thomas, et alii, which bring out the spiritual riches.  I am only a philologist, a student of languages, and will confine myself to elucidating the words.  Some of what I have to say—and more—can be found in the podcasts we did on the subject.

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Access / All Paid Subscribers / Feature / Fleming

23 Dec, 2023

Why Four Gospels?

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Why does the Church authorize four Gospels?  Of course there were many other versions, and some of them, surely, contained useful details.  And, on the other hand, if we could not be permitted to read a dozen, why not one comprehensive story, which would avoid confusion and discourage the sneers of skeptics who search the texts for discrepancies?

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All Paid Subscribers / Andrei Navrozov / Wednesday's Child

20 Dec, 2023

Wednesday’s Child: Back to the Trout Stream

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My thesis last week was that the ambition to create world caliphates on the part of groups or regimes with totalitarian methods and aims often breaks on strategic mistiming, of which the invasions of Israel and Ukraine are examples currently in the news. Peace, peace, peace is the war by which the West is won, whereas those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.