Trump Witch Hunt Goes Into Overdrive
Almost everything in America now is illegal. The old saying, “Don’t make a federal case of it,” no longer is heard, because now everything is a federal case.
The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary
Wednesday’s Child: Oblivion of Things Past
No less than Time, which the precocious T. S. Eliot pedantically capitalized already in his school essays, Memory is a slippery subject.
Additional Summer School 2023 Readings, Updated 06/17
David Hume’s essay on The Original Contract has been added. Passages Added from Plato and Aristotle. In addition to the assigned readings, the following passages and fragments will be referred to. More will be added in the coming days. P
Westerns Episode 6: Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
In this final episode of the 1929-1959 era, Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss 1958’s Buchanan Rides Alone and just how endearing a smiling stranger in town can be. Homework for next episode: watch Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. To see the Taylor Hackford video Dr. Fleming refers to, click here.
Wednesday’s Child: Call Signs
Celeste Dell’Anna, interior designer of genius and my friend of thirty years, is coming to visit us today from Milan, where he lives.
Memorial Day 2023: Democrats Letting VA Hospitals Decay Again
If you want to see what’s really going on in America, go to a major Veterans Administration hospital. Since Covid, you can’t go inside unless you have business there. But walk around outside and go by the entrance.
Wednesday’s Child: Letter from Venice
This time around my impression of the town where I had spent four waterlogged years was altogether baleful. Now I was here as a stranger, and this made immersion in the tourist miasma, which locals are trained and equipped to evade, unavoidable and humiliating.
Rereading Homer’s Iliad, Book II
Instead of meeting with a massive protest, there is a stampede to the ships that is stopped, just in time by wiser heads. Old Nestor advises him to muster the troops according to tribes (phyla) and clans (phretres)
Chronicles of Wasted Time: White Lite
I am a little tired of hearing white Republicans complaining about reparations. Most of them supported discriminatory wealth transfer programs and did little or nothing to oppose affirmative action.
