The Fleming Foundation – Cultural Commentary

The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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4 Aug, 2026

I read the comments on articles on various new sites, including the Daily Mail, for whom I used to write an online column. Typical is the response to a piece on the In-N-Out Burger shootings in Idaho. Right or Left, Republican or Democrat, Americans are a very sick people, and th only proof you need are the innumerable posts rushing to blame the other side in a case where no one yet knows what motivated the murderer. Of the two groups, I blame the pro-gun rightwingers more, because they have a much stronger sense of reality, but their incessant name-calling...

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4 Aug, 2026

Road Trip Ready: Audiobooks We’ve Enjoyed

In the near future, we have quite a long road trip planned to the Midwest. One thing we’ve found that greatly helps while away the hours, especially across northern Indiana where everything looks like the set of a dystopian movie, are audiobooks.

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3 Aug, 2026

Darkness Visible, the Elizabethans, Part V: The School of Night

By Thomas Fleming

So far, we have learned that the Renaissance, while it certainly celebrated human reason, also witnessed the revival of neopagan, anti-Christian magic. This Hermetic movement, which takes its name from the writings written under the name Hermes Trismegistus, aimed at finding the secrets of making gold, creating living creatures, liberating men from the Christian religion and Christian morality,

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30 Jul, 2026

Italian IV.4: More Subjunctive Forms

By Thomas Fleming

Nearly every popular Italian language series with which I am familiar, including Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, etc, as well as the podcasts would have you believe that learning grammar is out of date.

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29 Jul, 2026

Wednesday’s Child: Life and Dust

By Andrei Navrozov

A couple of times a year I cook borsch. Fits of nostalgia aren’t the reason, and I would make this wholesome soup more often if beets, its principal ingredient, were easier to come by in the south of Italy.

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27 Jul, 2026

Fame

By Thomas Fleming

Fame is not everything: It probably comes after money and power, but once you have money and power and hot and cold running blonds, what else can the apemen want?

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27 Jul, 2026

Darkness Visible, The Elizabethans, IV

By Thomas Fleming

Unfortunately, neopaganism does not merely have a dark side. It is the dark side of the classical revival in general and of Hellenism in particular

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22 Jul, 2026

Wednesday’s Child: Rorschach Slop

By Andrei Navrozov

I would be somewhat offended if the gentle reader thought even for a moment that I had watched this film before writing about it.

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22 Jul, 2026

Revisiting the Odyssey, II

By Thomas Fleming

This then is a summary of what very little we know of the Greeks down to the time of the Trojan War and its aftermath. Since writing disappeared with the rest of Mycenaean civilization, a poet would have to rely on traditions handed down to him over a period of 4 centuries—10 or 12 generations.

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21 Jul, 2026

Reconsidering the Odyssey, I

By Thomas Fleming

Christopher Nolan’s new film “version” is out, and although I have not yet seen it, I am going to put up some sections of a long-promised but never delivered set of lectures on the Ancient Greek Mind. This first section takes up the question of “who were the Greeks?”, though I have eliminated most of the historical details of the lectures.

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21 Jul, 2026

Greek I.42 WITH TRANSLATION AUDIO. Greek sentences corrected

By Thomas Fleming

I have been completely tied up the past few weeks with our Summer School. Besides, a little vacation from time to time refreshes the brain and the appetite to learn.