The Fleming Foundation: Recent Episodes
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In this episode of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Trifkovic discusses the capitulation of Trump to the establishment and what that means for interactions in North Korea, Venezuela, and Russia.
Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: September 11, 2017 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/season-1-foreign-affairs-episode-5-september-2017-free/
In this episode of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic comments on the referendum in Turkey, the French election, and the state of the British Government, all within the context of 11 months on since Brexit caused the first major shock to “politics as usual.”
Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: May 12, 2017 Show Run Time: 45 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-foreign-affairs-episode-4-may-2017-free/
In this special edition of the Fleming Foundation podcast, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic and Stephen Heiner discuss the so-called “Muslim Ban” of President Donald Trump, the domestic and worldwide response, and what the next 6-12 months might portend.
Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: February 7, 2017 Show Run Time: 26 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/02/season-1-ff-podcast-episode-4-muslim-ban/
In this episode of the Autodidact, Dr. Fleming takes on the often-requested question of how to read a poem. He examines a few lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost through better-known lenses like rhyme and meter, but also lesser-known ones like anaclasis, elision, and assonance.
Ep1: https://fleming.foundation/2018/03/mystery-and-detective-stories-autodidact-episode-1/
Original Air Date: October 4, 2018 Show Run Time: 1 hour 3 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/10/how-to-read-a-poem-autodidact-episode-2/
In this first episode of our new series Autodidact, Dr. Fleming explores mystery and detective stories, from Oedipus to Agatha Christie to Edgar Allen Poe.
Original Air Date: March 20, 2018 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/03/mystery-and-detective-stories-autodidact-episode-1/
In this episode, Dr. Trifkovic continues discussing particulars of the centuries-long Islamic invasion of Europe as well as a revisiting of the Crusades - why they happened, and how successful they were.
Original Air Date: January 8, 2017 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/01/islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-9/
In this episode, the second of a two part mini-series entitled, “Jihad and the Caliphate,” Dr. Trifkovic discusses the issue of succession after the death of Mohammed and the four “rightly guided caliphs,” Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, who presided over what is still known to Muslims as the “Golden Age of Islam.” He explains the break between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims and begins narrating the Muslim invasion of Europe.
Original Air Date: January 8, 2017 Show Run Time: 36 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/01/jihad-and-the-caliphate-part-ii-islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-8/
In this episode, the first of a two part mini-series entitled, “Jihad and the Caliphate” Dr. Trifkovic deals head-on with the often used objection by apologists of Islam that “jihad is an internal battle.” He explains why this is manifestly false. He also deals with a more recent novelty, the concept of “ecumenical jihad,” or the coalition of those with “some religion” against those with none.
Original Air Date: January 8, 2017 Show Run Time: 32 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/01/jihad-and-the-caliphate-part-i-islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-7/
In this episode of Islam: The Real Truth About the “Religion of Peace”, Dr. Trifkovic discusses the Arabic-centric nature of Islam as well as the idea of Islam as “bi-theistic” - treating of Mohammed as related to Allah in the eyes of Muslims. Why is the concept of God so different for Muslims than for Christians? We discuss these concepts and more.
Original Air Date: January 5, 2017 Show Run Time: 27 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/01/islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-6/
In this episode of Islam: The Real Truth About the “Religion of Peace”, Dr. Trifkovic discusses the phrase “people of the book,” the way the Koran is laid out and versified, as well as how Christian and Judaic accounts are portrayed in it, not the least of which is Mohammed’s incorrect notion of what the Trinity represented.
Original Air Date: January 5, 2017 Show Run Time: 37 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/01/islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-5/
In this episode of Islam: The Real Truth About the “Religion of Peace”, Dr. Trifkovic continues his explication of portions of the so-called “theology” of Islam by contrast with Christian concepts of creation, scripture, tradition, sin, fallenness, predestination, angels, devils, and the afterlife.
Original Air Date: November 22, 2017 Show Run Time: 32 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/11/islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-4/
In this episode of Islam: The Real Truth About the “Religion of Peace”, Dr. Trifkovic delves deeper into why Islam cannot be considered a “mere” religion and describes the five pillars, the Koran, the “sunnah” and the Hadiths.
Original Air Date: September 20, 2017 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/season-1-islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-3/
In this episode of Islam: The Real Truth About the “Religion of Peace”, Dr. Trifkovic concludes the end of the beginning stages of Islam by discussing the escalation of violence by Mohammed in Medina and the surrounding areas, how Jews and Christians were to be treated, and what legacy Mohammed left to his followers.
Original Air Date: May 16, 2017 Show Run Time: 37 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-2/
In this episode which is made specially for our Charter Subscribers, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic defines the texts we will be referring to, specifically the Koran, sunna, hadiths, and the system of cataloguing the Koran in “suras.” He goes on to discuss the type of world that Mohammed, the so-called prophet, was born into, the types of religion practiced in that part of the world, and the development of Islam prior to the taking of Mecca.
Original Air Date: April 6, 2017 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/04/season-1-islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-1/
In this zero episode of Islam: The Real Truth About the “Religion of Peace” Dr. Srdja Trifkovic discusses the writing of his 2002 book The Sword of the Prophet: his motivations, how he went about writing the book, how it was received, and its importance today, 15 years later.
Original Air Date: February 17, 2017 Show Run Time: 35 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/02/season-1-islam-the-real-truth-about-the-religion-of-peace-episode-0-introduction/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, Dr. Fleming makes the case that a basic working knowledge of Latin should be a basic requirement for those involved in government, and should even be considered essential for those who wish to speak English well.
Original Air Date: January 4, 2018 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/01/no-liberty-for-the-latinless-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-9/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, Dr. Fleming continues on the theme of “Progress” recently discussed in 2 episodes of Christianity and Classical Culture. Dr. Fleming makes the case that, contrary to popular belief, technological and medical progress have NOT been unqualified benefits to the human race.
Original Air Date: December 2, 2017 Show Run Time: 49 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/12/progress-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-8/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, we discuss Dr. Fleming’s response to the accusations of sexual misconduct of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, et al. He thinks it’s not much of a story at all.
Original Air Date: November 13, 2017 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/11/weinstein-spacey-weve-seen-it-all-before-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-7/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, Dr. Fleming discusses what role, if any, the Federal Government should have in disaster relief. Dr. Fleming approaches the question from the moral, pragmatic, and constitutional viewpoints, and also takes a moment to address the issues of people having the legal ability to live on uninsurable land on the coasts and price gouging.
Original Air Date: September 1, 2017 Show Run Time: 53 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/season-1-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-5-hurricanes-and-you/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, we take a further look at the destruction of symbols in society - not just of statues of the Southern Confederacy, but even of religious and secular figures. Far from a counter-protest or adopting the tactics of our enemies, Dr. Fleming encourages a much more radical notion: opting-out.
Original Air Date: September 22, 2017 Show Run Time: 53 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/leaving-society-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-6/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, we pose the question to Dr. Fleming: “Are people incapable of rational judgement?” Interwoven in the discussion are the protests in Portland, Kathy Griffin, “settled science,” the left/right paradigm, the alt right, along with appearances, via quotes, of course, by E.E. Cummings and Max Beerhbohm.
Original Air Date: June 16, 2017 Show Run Time: 47 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/06/season-1-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-4-rational-judgement/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, we deal with the issue of the New Age not just as a silly sideshow, but as a dangerous trap. Dr. Fleming starts by discussing the Renaissance and its two-pronged movement, the more questionable of which set up an alliance between science and magic that perseveres today in things like Gaia and the new global warming religion. Dr. Fleming also shares thoughts on Giordano Bruno, the phrase “Renaissance Man,” and Pico della Mirandola. Enjoy!
Original Air Date: May 23, 2017 Show Run Time: 54 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-3-the-new-age/
In this episode of Surely, You Must Be Joking Dr. Fleming?, we discuss representative democracy: is there such a thing, is it even possible, and what are Dr. Fleming’s proposals for dealing with it.
Original Air Date: May 15, 2017 Show Run Time: 46 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-surely-you-must-be-joking-dr-fleming-episode-2-representative-democracy/
In the first episode of this new series Dr. Fleming takes on the issue of slavery. Is it a “moral issue?” How do we look at slavery both historically and within the context of “slavery” that most Americans think about, which is to say what existed prior to 1860? Is there a value to paternalism, to hierarchy, to obedience? What did St. Paul say? What about modern day wage slavery? Dr. Fleming discusses all this and more to help you possibly have a more productive conversation with friends should you dare to broach this topic sometime.
Original Air Date: February 24, 2017 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
Pizza with Chef Garret Fleming and Dr. Fleming on The Best Revenge.
Original Air Date: June 2018 Show Run Time: 29 minutes Show Guest(s): Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2018/07/pizza-with-chef-garret-the-best-revenge-episode-15/
"The Egg and Us," Chef Garret Fleming and Dr. Fleming on The Best Revenge.
Original Air Date: April 3, 2018 Show Run Time: 39 minutes Show Guest(s): Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2018/04/the-egg-and-us-the-best-revenge-episode-14/
In this episode of The Best Revenge, Thomas and Garret Fleming, joined by Rex Scott, eat their way through Umbria.
Original Air Date: December 4, 2017 Show Run Time: 39 minutes Show Guest(s): Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming, Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/12/umbria-the-best-revenge-episode-13/
In this episode of The Best Revenge, Rex and Dr. Fleming have a heated exchange over the merits of pop music lyrics. Fans of Bob Dylan and "the Boss" may not be happy.
Original Air Date: September 28, 2017 Show Run Time: 38 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/i-take-the-high-road-and-rex-takes-the-low-roads-the-best-revenge-episode-12/
In this episode of The Best Revenge, Stephen and Dr. Fleming come back to a favorite topic: Rome. This episode is focused on preparation for next month’s Symposium in the Eternal City.
Original Air Date: September 25, 2017 Show Run Time: 55 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/rome-part-2-the-best-revenge-episode-11/
In this episode of The Best Revenge, Dr. Fleming and Stephen discuss how “the experts” can ruin basic enjoyment of wine, beer, spirits, tobacco, food, and pretty much anything pleasurable.
Original Air Date: August 26, 2017 Show Run Time: 50 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/08/season-1-the-best-revenge-episode-10-the-finer-things/
In this episode of The Best Revenge, Chef Garret introduces the noble topic of smoked pork.
Original Air Date: May 20, 2017 Show Run Time: 1 hour 2 minutes Show Guest(s): Chef Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-the-best-revenge-episode-9-smoking-pork/
In this episode of The Best Revenge, Dr. Fleming grills and roasts Chef Garret Fleming on how to prepare lamb for Easter.
Original Air Date: April 25, 2017 Show Run Time: 43 minutes Show Guest(s): Chef Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2017/04/season-1-the-best-revenge-episode-8-preparing-lamb-for-easter/
On this episode devoted to "Pasta alla Norma," Thomas Fleming and Chef Garret Fleming talk about Sicilian markets, the history of eggplant, and even the preparation of this classic Sicilian pasta.
Original Air Date: April 7, 2017 Show Run Time: 46 minutes Show Guest(s): Chef Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2017/04/season-1-the-best-revenge-episode-7-pasta-alla-norma/
Original Air Date: October 16, 2018 Show Run Time: 14 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
Original Air Date: October 9, 2018 Show Run Time: 18 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
Ep1: https://fleming.foundation/2018/08/life-right-or-duty/
https://fleming.foundation/2018/10/life-right-or-duty-part-2-from-under-the-rubble-episode-34/
Original Air Date: August 8, 2018 Show Run Time: 25 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/08/life-right-or-duty/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Q and A, June 2018 Part 4."
Original Air Date: June 2018 Show Run Time: 29 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/07/q-and-a-june-2018-part-4-from-under-the-rubble-episode-32/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Q and A, June 2018 Part 3."
Original Air Date: June 25, 2018 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/q-and-a-june-2018-part-3-from-under-the-rubble-episode-31/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Democracy, Part 2."
Original Air Date: June 16, 2018 Show Run Time: 19 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/democracy-part-2-from-under-the-rubble-episode-30/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Q and A, June 2018 Part 2."
Original Air Date: June 19, 2018 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/q-and-a-june-2018-part-2-from-under-the-rubble-episode-28/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Democracy, Part 1."
Original Air Date: June 12, 2018 Show Run Time: 25 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/democracy-part-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-29/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Q and A, June 2018 Part 1."
Original Air Date: June 11, 2018 Show Run Time: 39 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/q-and-a-june-2018-part-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-27/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Pigs is Pigs, Part II."
Original Air Date: May 24, 2018 Show Run Time: 24 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/05/pigs-is-pigs-part-ii-from-under-the-rubble-episode-26/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "Pigs is Pigs, Part I."
Original Air Date: May 21, 2018 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/05/pigs-is-pigs-part-i-from-under-the-rubble-episode-25/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "The Leaders We Deserve, Part II."
Original Air Date: May 17, 2018 Show Run Time: 24 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/05/the-leaders-we-deserve-part-ii-from-under-the-rubble-episode-24/
From Under the Rubble with Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott: "The Leaders We Deserve, Part I."
Original Air Date: May 14 2018 Show Run Time: 29 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/05/the-leaders-we-deserve-part-i-from-under-the-rubble-episode-23/
Original Air Date: April 4, 2018 Show Run Time: 30 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/04/home-rule-and-the-myth-of-democracy-from-under-the-rubble-episode-22/
Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott discuss coarse language From Under the Rubble.
Original Air Date: March 28, 2018 Show Run Time: 38 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/03/expletives-deleted-from-under-the-rubble-episode-21/
Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott have their Disagreements From Under the Rubble.
Original Air Date: February 15, 2018 Show Run Time: 33 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2018/02/disagreements-from-under-the-rubble-episode-20/
Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott discuss the development of technology From Under the Rubble
Original Air Date: December 21, 2017 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/12/you-robot-me-man-from-under-the-rubble-episode-19/
Dr. Thomas Fleming and Rex Scott virtually build Trump's wall.
Original Air Date: September 21, 2017 Show Run Time: 28 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/trumps-wall-and-the-tower-of-babylon-part-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-17/
Trump's wall is our best defense against the builders of the Tower of Babel in the New World Order.
Original Air Date: September 23, 2017 Show Run Time: 34 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/trumps-wall-and-the-tower-of-babylon-part-2-from-under-the-rubble-episode-18/
Fleming and Scott continue their search for the meaning and implications of fascism and anti-fascism.
Original Air Date: September 15, 2017 Show Run Time: 12 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/fascism-a-primer-part-2-from-under-the-rubble-episode-16/
Dr. Thomas Fleming and Rex Scott search for particles of truth among the rubbish of the media.
Original Air Date: September 13, 2017 Show Run Time: 25 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/fascism-a-primer-part-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-15/
Dr. Fleming and Rex Scott (his Gen-X co-host) discuss why the Media Establishment hates the President for all the right reasons and what it says about them.
Original Air Date: September 7, 2017 Show Run Time: 36 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Rex Scott
https://fleming.foundation/2017/09/season-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-14-hating-donald-trump/
In this episode of From Under the Rubble, Dr. Thomas Fleming explores the recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Fleming examines what happened, what President Trump should (not) have said, the role that the media played, and the proper context and definition of words like “fascist,” “racist,” “alt-right,” and the newly coined “alt-left.”
Original Air Date: August 18, 2017 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/08/season-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-13-charlottesville/
In this episode of From Under the Rubble, we deal with the theme of “moral survival.” The premise of From Under the Rubble is what do we do in a world run by evil people - how do we live in the ruins? Dr. Fleming gives us 5 principles to deal with the culture in our everyday lives.
Original Air Date: May 19, 2017 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-12-moral-survival/
In this episode of From Under the Rubble, Dr. Fleming examines the veracity of the existence of “the free press” within the “American Democracy.”
Original Air Date: April 24, 2017 Show Run Time: 33 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
In this episode of From Under the Rubble, Dr. Fleming examines the idea of “Hating the Constitution” via the well-known song, “I’m a good ol’ Rebel.” What does it mean to love and worship and protect the Constitution? Is this something that traditionalists and conservatives should be engaged in?
Original Air Date: March 22, 2017 Show Run Time: 37 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/03/season-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-10-i-hate-the-constitution/
In this episode Dr. Fleming takes on one of the issues brought forward by those who wished to dispute the validity of the recent US election: the relevance of the electoral college. Dr. Fleming explores the historical context for the electoral college, as well as various other “disputed” presidential elections and makes the case, among other things, for why the 17th amendment should be repealed.
Original Air Date: February 16, 2017 Show Run Time: 35 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2017/02/season-1-from-under-the-rubble-episode-9-whither-the-electoral-college/
A lively discussion of Walter Miller's science fiction masterpiece, a future history in which mankind repeats the Dark Ages only to make the same mistakes again.
Recorded: March 22, 2018 Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2018/05/a-canticle-for-leibowitz-part-2-boethius-book-club-episode-12/
A lively discussion of Walter Miller's science fiction masterpiece, a future history in which mankind repeats the Dark Ages only to make the same mistakes again.
Recorded: March 22, 2018 Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2018/05/a-canticle-for-leibowitz-part-1-boethius-book-club-episode-11/
Dr. Fleming and Eleanor Lacy take up the Fourth Conjugation, the imperfect tense, and discuss a little Roman religion.
Original Air Date: May 18, 2017 Show Run Time: 49 minutes Show Guest(s): Eleanor Lacy Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2017/05/season-1-latin-episode-9/
Join Dr. Fleming on another episode of “Dialogues with a Young Latin Teacher” featuring Eleanor Lacy. This lesson begins with the fifth declension and the use and formation of the imperfect indicative.
Original Air Date: April 13, 2017 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Eleanor Lacy Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
https://fleming.foundation/2017/04/season-1-latin-episode-8/
In this episode Dr Fleming discusses Book I of De Republica. Cicero writes, in his own way, that when it comes to government and amelioration of the public good, that it is “not good for man to be alone.” Dr. Fleming also alludes to Cicero’s conception of the ideal composition of the commonwealth (not the “state”).
Original Air Date: June 2018 Show Run Time: 46 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/cicero-and-de-republica-christianity-and-classical-culture-episode-24/
In this second of a two-part mini series on Euripides, Dr. Fleming takes a look at one of Euripides' plays, Hecuba. What was the lot of women, particularly those involved in the Trojan War, what was the role of blood revenge, and the question of becoming what you chase after are just a few of the themes that Stephen and Dr. Fleming discuss in this episode.
Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 45 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
In this first of a two-part mini series on Euripedes, Dr. Fleming discusses what (little) we know about Euripedes, his relationship in the mind of the Greeks to Aeschylus and Sophocles, the themes he most frequently considered, and why he's important for us to study today.
Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 34 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
https://fleming.foundation/2018/06/euripides-introduction-christianity-and-classical-culture-episode-22/
In this third episode on the Aeneid (Episodes 1 and 2 available below). Dr. Fleming discusses similarities between the Odyssey and Aeneid and why Aeneas must press forward, through geographic and intellectual wanderings, even though he finds some of his fellow Trojans building “Parva Troia” and finds a beautiful queen in Dido who tempts him to end his journey. Book III is an essential background for understanding the work.
Parts 1 and 2 https://fleming.foundation/2017/08/season-1-christianity-and-classical-culture-episode-15-aeneid-book-i/ https://fleming.foundation/2017/11/aeneid-book-ii-christianity-and-classical-culture-episode-16/
Original Air Date: May 2018 Show Run Time: 50 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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This episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, our final for this season, completes the discussion began by Dr. Fleming in the previous episode about marriage within Classical times and after Christianity’s influence by looking at divorce and remarriage.
Part 1: Marriage: Christianity and Classical Culture, Episode 19 (https://fleming.foundation/marriage-christianity-and-classical-culture-episode-19)
Original Air Date: December 28, 2017 Show Run Time: 1 hour Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming discusses Classical and Jewish views on marriage and how Christianity built upon superstructures of monogamy towards a self-sacrificing sacrament.
Original Air Date: December 27, 2017 Show Run Time: 59 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Continuing on the themes from the previous episode, Dr. Fleming goes on to discuss the role of a wall in a city - how does it restrict “progress”? How did Rome, Athens, Paris, and even NYC and Chicago deal with “borders”? What about monuments - and the tearing-down of them - is this “progress”? Is this simply at attack on Christianity?
Part 1: The Myth of Progress, Part 1: Christianity and Classical Culture, Episode 17 (https://fleming.foundation/the-myth-of-progress-part-1-christianity-and-classical-culture-episode-17)
Original Air Date: December 1, 2017 Show Run Time: 50 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, we begin a two episode miniseries examining the Myth of Progress. Why is modern culture ugly? How is this related to progress? How is “progress” properly defined? How do we see it in art and architecture? What are some cities that demonstrate an ordered an organic growth?
Original Air Date: November 30, 2017 Show Run Time: 59 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming continues his book-by-book discussion of the Aeneid. This episode covers Book II.
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Original Air Date: November 21, 2017 Show Run Time: 1 hour 4 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming gives our listeners a broad overview of Book I of the Aeneid - he discusses themes, alludes to what will come in later books, and, as always, examines events or plot lines in relation to Christian thought.
Original Air Date: August 31, 2017 Show Run Time: 55 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming discusses the Georgics of Vergil: how and why Virgil uses a paean for agriculture and the rural life to teach deeper lessons about life, death, and responsibilities.
In the final 20 minutes of the show there is a bit of disturbance with Dr. Fleming’s audio. We apologize to listeners in advance.
Original Air Date: July 4, 2017 Show Run Time: 58 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming discusses Virgil and why he is the pagan that Dante chose to lead him in the Divine Comedy.
Dr. Fleming goes on to discuss Dante and, in part, the Divine Comedy and why it is a trilogy worth reading.
He ends by discussing Virgil’s mysterious reference to a child who will save the world. Prophecy or coincidence? We report, you decide.
Episode note: We apologize for some background noise that occurred during recording.
Original Air Date: May 30, 2017 Show Run Time: 58 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming discusses the notion of Friendship from the time of the Greeks and Romans to the present day. Learn why friendship is so much more than modern man conceives of.
Original Air Date: May 17, 2017 Show Run Time: 44 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming discusses Marcus Aurelius, his life and times, and his adaptation of Greek Stoicism to the Roman mindset. We examine areas of agreement…and disagreement with Christian teaching. Dr. Fleming also explains why Marcus didn’t take Christianity very seriously as a religion, movement, or belief system.
Original Air Date: April 4, 2017 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this first podcast of 2017, Dr. Fleming explores the notion of “ethics” within the constructs of the Odyssey and within the character of Odysseus himself. Can a liar and someone unfaithful to his wife be seen to be ethical? What are ethics in the ancient world? And how do they relate to Christianity?
Original Air Date: February 4, 2017 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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This month’s selection is The Odyssey. Our first discussion one year ago, you will recall, took up the books devoted to Telemachus. (https://fleming.foundation/2015/12/boethius-book-club-episode-1-telemachus/) The discussion was quite good but limited. Although everyone probably has read the Odyssey more than once, and I know that many reread the whole thing for last August’s meeting, we shall be concentrating mainly on the opening of Book I, Books V-VIII, XI, and XIII-XXIV.
In this next installment, we shall take up the character and homecoming of Odysseus and explore more deeply the Homeric view of man, the gods, and justice. We might even engage in a bit of theological comparison of the Odyssey with the Christian Gospels.
For translations, I recommend (as before) translations done before WWII. Butcher & Lang are quite accurate; Samuel Butler is very readable, as is T.E. Lawrence’s rather colloquial retelling.
Recorded: August 25, 2016 Original Air Date: December 21, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 11 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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This month’s selection is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Often misunderstood as a horror novel, Stevenson’s strange tale is a brilliant and prophetic exploration of modern man and his lust for the primitive. The 20th century has played out Stevenson’s allegory in movement after movement—from the rage for going back to nature to the so-called paleo diet. We have become as morally repulsive and lust-obsessed as the alter-ego Dr. Jekyll called into being.
Recorded: June 23, 2016 Original Air Date: September 3, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 17 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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This month’s selection is The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. Many, if not most, of you have undoubtedly read this prophetic book. Lewis realized that modern culture was saturated with a virulent form of nominalism that reduced all human knowledge to pseudo-objective social sciences and human wisdom to subjective judgment. His answer was to refamiliarize ourselves with a form of natural law teaching that reached across cultures. The Abolition of Man remains provocative to this day, particularly Lewis’s insight that the subjectivism taught by bad literature textbooks flows inexorably into the contempt for human nature that made genetic engineering a science fiction dream in his own day and a grim reality in our own.
Recorded: April 21, 2016 Original Air Date: August 16, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 14 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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This month’s selection is book I of Machiavelli’s Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius. If you think this title refers to a dry academic commentary on an ancient historian, think again. Machiavelli is one of the most brilliant and original political thinkers in human history, and this is his by far best work. I first read it at the suggestion of (or rather under orders from) my friend Sam Francis, who (like James Burnham and other political analysts) viewed it as the political equivalent of sacred writ. Machiavelli takes the first ten books of Livy’s History of Rome as a backdrop, but he talks as much about the Italian and European history of his own time as he does of ancient Rome. Some knowledge of Livy’s stories is helpful, but several of the translations have sufficient notes, if you have forgotten about Tarquin the Proud and Brutus the liberator.
The most useful edition is the Oxford paperback for under $10 on Amazon, with a Kindle version at $7.55. There are other good translations at lower prices, including Kindle editions of all his political works for $.99.
This should be an exciting discussion, one that can draw in some observations and conclusions about the American political system and the current electioneering.
Recorded: March 29, 2016 Original Air Date: August 10, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 13 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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February’s book selection is a bit different from previous choices: The Glass Key, a hardboiled mystery novel by Dashiel Hammett. Hammet is best known for The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, both of which were turned into popular films, but the author’s personal favorite was The Glass Key, a very readable novel that takes up themes of friendship and loyalty, deception and betrayal. It was made into two American films. An early version starring George Raft and a later and better film with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. The great Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa, so liked this movie that it inspired him to make one of his most popular films, Yojimbo, which in turned inspired Sergio Leone to make his first Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, A Fistful of Dollars. Moviegoers will have the chance to defend their favorite version, though fans of Sergio Leone are going to have a tough time.
The most available text of The Glass Key is in the Library of America edition of Dashiel Hammett . Less expensive editions are available at Amazon. ABE is selling copies of the Vintage paperback edition for $3.45, shipping included. There is also an overpriced Kindle edition, which may be more convenient for some readers.
Recorded: February 25, 2015 Original Air Date: August 3, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 13 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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The book is the classic written by our inspiration and patron, Boethius: On the Consolation of Philosophy. For well over 1000 years, this book—the reflections of a condemned man on what makes life worth living—was required reading for anyone who pretended to the smallest degree of literacy. It was translated by two English monarchs (Alfred and Elizabeth I) and represented the introduction to philosophy that people in the Medieval period received. It is that rare gift of literature—a profound book addressed not to specialists and geniuses but to everyday men and women.
As luck would have it, our discussion will take place on the eve of the feast day of Saint Severinus, the name under which the philosopher and statesman Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius is honored.
There are many editions and translations available both in print and online. There are several free Kindle editions, for example, and inexpensive paperbacks from Oxford, Ignatius, and Penguin. (Used copies of the Penguin edition are available on Abebooks.com for only $3.38 with free shipping.) I’ll be using the bilingual Loeb text.
Recorded: October 22, 2015 Original Air Date: July 30, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 20 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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Our November book is comparatively short: Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus. This is Sophocles last play that we know of: He wrote it as an old man, who—according to tradition—was being sued by his own sons, who wanted to prove the old man non compos mentis. It is something like Sophocles’ King Lear, but instead of concentrating on ingratitude. the Greek poet gives us an image of filial piety in his daughters and in the aged protagonist he depicts a man transformed by suffering and filled with gratitude toward the Athenians who gave him hospitality. This is a play about loyalty, gratitude, and the duties of kinship and patriotism.
If you have the time and have not read his other plays on the Oedipus theme—Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone—you might have a look at them or at least read my discussion of these plays on Fleming.Foundation.
Recorded: November 19, 2015 Original Air Date: July 27, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 9 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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One of Shakespeare’s less familiar masterpieces is Measure for Measure. This is a serious play, certainly not a comedy, and yet it ends happily without a full complement of corpses on the stage. It was written about 1605, during the same period in which he composed his greatest works. In Measure for Measure Shakespeare takes up serious moral and political questions: the nature of justice, the quality of rulers, and, perhaps most significantly, the debate over marriage that raged between, on the one hand, Catholics and Anglicans, and, on the other, Calvinists. It is not too much to say that this play has more to say about our current marriage crisis than any 1000 books and pamphlets produced by movement conservatives.
There are innumerable student editions available in paperback or online (Just don’t read the introductions!), and there is also a 1979 BBC production that can be ordered from Netflix. There is also, though I have never heard it, an early Wagner opera based on the play, Das Liebesverbot.
Recorded: December 17, 2015 Original Air Date: July 19, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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This early work by one of the masters of the novel is the introduction to his magnificent series of novels set in or near the mythical cathedral town of Barchester. We meet some of the enduring characters—Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, and that model of "stupid" conservatism, Archdeacon Grantly . The humor is broader than it is in later books, and in his portrait of the ardent liberal John Bold, Trollope lays his cards on the table as he never will again. The Warden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, but it is only one that raises very important moral questions about friendship, loyalty, and the impossible dreams of justice and inequality that have done so much to wreck the world that Trollope so lovingly describes.
Recorded: September 17, 2015 Original Air Date: April 26, 2015 Show Run Time: 1 hour 14 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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The first four books of the Odyssey can be read as the tale of Odysseus' troubled son, Telemachus, a young man brought up without a father and treated with contempt by his mother's suitors. In his travels in search of information about his father, Telemachus learns how to be a man. Dr. Fleming's introductory comments and the group discussion make an insightful and entertaining introduction to this early masterpiece of Western literature.
Recorded: August 13, 2015 Original Air Date: December 7, 2015 Show Run Time: 1 hour 20 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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On this maiden voyage of the Fleming Foundation into podcasting, Dr. Thomas Fleming and Dr. Srdja Trifkovic discuss the recent bombings in Paris from both an American and a European perspective. Please enjoy and feel free to give feedback and ask questions.
This is a work in progress so please be gentle on us!
Original Air Date: November 18, 2015 Show Run Time: 54 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Foreign Affairs, Drs. Fleming and Trifkovic take a look at the recent Italian referendum, the situation in Serbia, the recent defeat of Norbert Hofer in Austria, and the current state of Turkey under Erdogan. If you want to know what the real score is in these situations, you owe it to yourself to take a listen.
Original Air Date: December 6, 2016 Show Run Time: 54 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of our occasional series, Foreign Affairs, Drs. Trifkovic and Fleming discuss the recent rulings regarding “war crimes” and “genocide” as applied to Radovan Karadzic and Vojislav Seselj. What is the significance of these verdicts both regionally and for greater Europe?
We apologize for some cuts in Dr. Fleming’s audio which could not be repaired and for the occasional phone ring in the background. Dr. Trifkovic is in high demand!
Original Air Date: April 5, 2016 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this first episode of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Srdja Trifkovic and Dr. Tom Fleming discuss the downing of Russian jets by the Turkish military. Was the US involved? What does this mean for Erdogan? for Putin? They also discuss what the UK’s contribution will be now that they have joined the “coalition.” In the second part of the episode Dr. Trifkovic says that Donald Trump is saying the “unsayable” and while not having a true grasp of the issues, is expressing a visceral reaction that is causing people to look seriously at the idea of immigration - either via economic or security lenses.
Original Air Date: December 14, 2015 Show Run Time: 42 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Join Dr. Fleming on this special "Dialogues with a Young Latin Teacher" episode featuring Eleanor Lacy.
Original Air Date: November 15, 2016 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Eleanor Lacy Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
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In this episode of Latin, Dr. Fleming discusses the accusative case, as well as the supine.
Please use these texts as necessary to follow along:
Romanum imperium, quo neque ab exordio ullum fere minus neque incrementis toto orbe amplius humana potest memoria recordari, a Romulo exordium habet, qui Reae Silviae, Vestalis virginis, filius et, quantum putatus est, Martis cum Remo fratre uno partu editus est. Is cum inter pastores latrocinaretur, decem et octo annos natus urbem exiguam in Palatino monte constituit XI Kal. Maias, Olympaids sextae anno terto, post Troiaie excidium, ut qui plurimum minimumque tradunt, anno trecentesimo nonagesimo quarto.
THE Roman empire, than which the memory of man can recall scarcely any one smaller in its commencement, or greater in its progress throughout the world, had its origin from Romulus; who, being the son of a vestal virgin, and, as was supposed, of Mars, was brought forth at one birth with his brother Remus. While leading a predatory life among the shepherds, he founded, when he was eighteen years of age, a small city on the Palatine Hill, on the 21st day of April, in the third year of the sixth Olympiad, and the three hundred and ninety-fourth after the destruction of Troy.
In nomine Patris, et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Sancte Michaël Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae caelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen.
Original Air Date: October 7, 2016 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Latin, Dr. Fleming discusses the ablative case, as well as the 4th Declension.
Please use these texts as necessary to follow along:
Romanum imperium, quo neque ab exordio ullum fere minus neque incrementis toto orbe amplius humana potest memoria recordari, a Romulo exordium habet, qui Reae Silviae, Vestalis virginis, filius et, quantum putatus est, Martis cum Remo fratre uno partu editus est. Is cum inter pastores latrocinaretur, decem et octo annos natus urbem exiguam in Palatino monte constituit XI Kal. Maias, Olympaids sextae anno terto, post Troiaie excidium, ut qui plurimum minimumque tradunt, anno trecentesimo nonagesimo quarto.
THE Roman empire, than which the memory of man can recall scarcely any one smaller in its commencement, or greater in its progress throughout the world, had its origin from Romulus; who, being the son of a vestal virgin, and, as was supposed, of Mars, was brought forth at one birth with his brother Remus. While leading a predatory life among the shepherds, he founded, when he was eighteen years of age, a small city on the Palatine Hill, on the 21st day of April, in the third year of the sixth Olympiad, and the three hundred and ninety-fourth after the destruction of Troy.
In nomine Patris, et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Sancte Michaël Archangele, defende nos in proelio; contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae caelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute in infernum detrude. Amen.
Original Air Date: September 26, 2016 Show Run Time: 37 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Latin, Dr. Fleming discusses the third declension, the dative case, and the inapt uses of English words that have Latin roots, particularly “fabulous,” “tremendous,” and the like.
Remember that this podcast is not a formal course but a foray into the study of Latin.
Original Air Date: April 29, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 10 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Notes for Latin: Episode Four
A. Clarifying Texts (Acts 2:1)
et cum conplerentur dies pentecostes erant omnes pariter in eodem loco et factus est repente de caelo sonus tamquam advenientis spiritus vehementis et replevit totam domum ubi erant sedentes et apparuerunt illis dispertitae linguae tamquam ignis seditque supra singulos eorum. et repleti sunt omnes Spiritu Sancto et coeperunt loqui aliis linguis prout Spiritus Sanctus dabat eloqui illis. Erant autem in Hierusalem habitantes Iudaei viri religiosi ex omni natione quae sub caelo sunt facta autem hac voce convenit multitudo et mente confusa est quoniam audiebat unusquisque lingua sua illos loquentes stupebant autem omnes et mirabantur dicentes nonne omnes ecce isti qui loquuntur Galilaei sunt...
B. Pedagogy (5 minutes)
How to memorize noun, pronoun adjective paradigms.
1) Try to avoid mesmerizing sing-song patterns, recite adjectives across all genders and not vertically, and memorize together nouns, adjectives, pronouns with different endings:
haec prudens puella, huius prudentis puellae, huic prudenti, puellae, hanc prudentem puellam, etc.
C. Nouns : (10 Minutes)
Third Declension: Consists of nouns with genitive in -is, without a vowel in the stem and nouns with an -i
—/-s -es
-is -[i]um
-i -ibus
-(e) m -es/-is
-e/-i -ibus
Among consonant-stems, those ending in liquid consonants—r, l, n-- typically do not add -s in nominative: consul, -is, nomen, -inis, also labor, nectar, arbor, October etc., but some nouns with nominative in -s are really -r stems with rhotacism: mas, maris, ceres cereris, genus, generis. Nouns with stems ending in -n it in nominative, as leo, leonis; imago, imaginis.
Model I-stem nouns to remember: civis, civis, aedes, aedis, and urbs, urbis
Dative Case: Indirect relationships
Indirect objects—to/for
With intransitive verbs of please/displease, advantage/disadvantage, help/harm, bid/forbid: Placeo, imperare, nocere, invidere, suadere, etc. Eventually develop sense. Many words can be clumsily translated to give sense: be pleasing to, helpful to, harmful to, where as a verb like hit or eat can not be so treated.
Possession with verb essere: Indicates close connection. The dative is the person interested in the possession. Puer librum habet as opposed to Liber puero est.
Dative or Personal Interest—person from whose point of view action is being carried out or in whose interest or to whose advantge
In this episode of our regular series, Latin, Dr. Fleming reviews the Lord’s Prayer, the Our Father, in Latin and examines more deeply some of its sentences by looking at how they are rendered in Latin (and originally, in Greek). He then goes on to discuss the second declension, the genitive case, and begins to look at the subjunctive. He ends the episode on a fruitful tangent by exploring true and false “restoration” when it comes to languages…and art.
Original Air Date: April 6, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 17 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Notes
A. Clarifying Texts
Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.
Latin precari> Italian pregare
Orare, bitte, prithee
B. Pedagogy
To the question, "Should I read and analyze each word of a text or skim for understanding?" the answer is: Do both, alternately. It is necessary to concentrate on grammar but also to develop reading speed.
C. Nouns: The Second declension is the "O" declension, though in some forms the "o" is weakened to "u" as in amicus, amicum, and in others disappears, as in amici.
Genitive Case: Not really the case of possession but of one noun modifying/restricting use, joining to another. In addition to possession, genitive is used to show object of feeling, as in amor patriae (love of country), the material or substance from which something is made or consists, talentum auri, quantity, pars copiarum,
D. Verbal Moods are modes of talking about events or making statements. The indicative is used for statements or questions about things that are or have happened, the subjunctive for things t hat may or may not be, because they are conjectured or feared, hoped for, commanded, etc., and imperative for commands. Subjunctive forms often more polite, as in ne nos inducas in tentationem.
Imperative: Negative imperatives typically use either ne+ subjunctive or noli/nolite plus infinitive.
On this episode Dr Fleming starts with an excerpt from the Gospel of St. Matthew. He uses the passage as a teaching device to look at endings of words. This discussion segues into nouns and verbs, declensions and conjugations, and hints and tips for learning and studying.
We also address some listener feedback from Episode Zero, before finishing with our “Latin Word of the Month” in which Dr. Fleming discusses English words and their Latin ancestors.
The text of the second passage that Stephen reads is: “In diebus autem illis venit Johannes Baptista praedicans in desert Iudaeae et dickens penitential agile adpropinquavit denim regnum caelorum.”
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Original Air Date: February 3, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 09 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this first episode of our podcast, Dr Fleming spends some time breaking down the first few verses of Chapter 1 from St. John's Gospel. By diving directly into the text, Dr Fleming absorbs the reader right into the study of Latin, using anecdotes and gentle encouragement in his inimitable style. There is a "gentle" version of Dr. Fleming! Take a listen.
Original Air Date: December 9, 2015 Show Run Time: 49 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this origin episode of the podcast, Dr. Fleming discusses the importance of studying a dead language in general, why this particular "dead" language is so vitally important for those focused on the patrimony of the West, and provides some practical points and names some possible texts for study.
Original Air Date: November 25, 2015 Show Run Time: 26 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Thomas Fleming and Chef Garret discuss different techniques of roasting a chicken. It is the simplest of dishes and, if properly done, one of the finest either for a simple everyday meal or as the centerpiece of a holiday dinner.
Original Air Date: December 3, 2016 Show Run Time: 51 minutes Show Guest(s): Chef Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
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Dr. Fleming and Chef Garret discuss this Italian classic and how it can be adapted to American ingredients.
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Original Air Date: October 22, 2016 Show Run Time: 43 minutes Show Guest(s): Chef Garret Fleming Show Host(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming
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In this episode of The Best Revenge, Dr. Fleming takes a look at the role of diets in our daily lives. What was the purpose of a diet traditionally and what is the essence of the fad diet that dominates our (American) lives these days? Where did it come from? Where is it going? How do we deal with our friends and neighbors besotted with these schemes and how can we “revenge" ourselves upon such a joyless practice?
Original Air Date: September 27, 2016 Show Run Time: 43 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of our regular series, The Best Revenge, Dr. Fleming makes the case for poetry. Not just the “poetry” that is the affectation of the dirty hippie, but the poetry that yearns to breathe deep within our souls. Dr. Fleming prescribes poetry as a “mental health remedy” and points out that there is indeed such a thing as “good poetry” that goes beyond a matter of subjective taste. If you are what you eat, so too poetry can enrich the rational animal that we are. Listen too if you wish to hear one of the rare times that Dr. Fleming disagrees with Aristotle!
Original Air Date: April 14, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 1 minute Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode host Stephen Heiner and guest Dr. Thomas Fleming discuss the Eternal City: Rome. Topics covered include:
• What makes it “eternal”? • What happened to Rome and the papal states during the so-called “unification” of Italy? • Why is the Victor Emmanuel monument an eyesore? • Piazza Navona: what you should know • The beauty of the Baths of Caracalla and the Colosseum • Some important tips for the visitor, including importantly, how to spot the best gelato and what kind of wine you might ask for • The legendary museum endurance of Gail Fleming • Why Rick Steves should be avoided
Original Air Date: February 27, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 19 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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This show tells you everything you ever wanted to know about--what else?--Bacon. Dr. Fleming interviews his son, Chef Garret Fleming (former head chef of Pig and now of Barrel in Washington DC) on the art of raising pigs, smoking and curing bacon. If only we could capture the smell on the website! He concludes with a humorous pig on the lighthearted subject of how not to kill a pig.
Original Air Date: December 3, 2015 Show Run Time: 50 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming, Garret Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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"How to live well in a dying age" is an old theme for the founders of The Fleming Foundation, and in this podcast series, Dr. Fleming and his friends will be exploring a variety of ways of living creatively and escaping the melancholy that seems to afflict so many conservatives and reactionaries. This series will explore some of the minor arts of living, from wilderness cooking to writing poetry, making beer, and watching old movies. Nil desperandum. That is Latin for "Despair not!"
Original Air Date: November 24, 2015 Show Run Time: 32 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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Thomas Fleming and his former radio partner Paul Youngblood scrutinize the last presidential debate and the toxic nuclear fallout in the media.
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Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: October 25, 2016 Show Run Time: 38 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Paul Youngblood
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Weekly News Roundup, September 30. The Debate, The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name, NFL Traitors. If you’re new to the Foundation and our work, please register as a free user and get access to some of our content.
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In this episode of From Under the Rubble Dr. Fleming reflects on the recent burkini controversy in France and its implications for so-called “religious freedom” both in the Old World and the New.
Original Air Date: September 12, 2016 Show Run Time: 39 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In today’s episode of From Under the Rubble Dr. Fleming takes a hard look at Libertarianism - its theories, its adherents, and its positive - and negative aspects. Is there such a thing as a Christian Libertarian? What were the lessons learned from the Buchanan insurgency? What is the future of libertarian/conservative working groups? Host Stephen Heiner also questions Dr. Fleming about the characters in and around the Libertarian movement over the last half century, like Murray Rothbard, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Lew Rockwell, and the like.
Original Air Date: May 25, 2016 Show Run Time: 55 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of From Under the Rubble, Dr. Thomas Fleming addresses something very much in the headlines these days: Civil Disobedience. Is it lawful and right? Host Stephen Heiner also asks our guest about the civil rights movement, while Dr. Fleming asks the larger question: what do we do in a civilized society when confronted with odious laws, dictates, and decrees?
Original Air Date: May 7, 2016 Show Run Time: 40 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Two political gaffes—one by Donald Trump and one by Hillary Clinton—injected pre-partum infanticide, known euphemistically as abortion, into the current presidential campaign. Ironically, both Trump and Clinton told the truth more or less, and the uproar they caused is a sign that the pro-life movement is headed in the wrong direction.
Original Air Date: April 20, 2016 Show Run Time: 31 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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The 2016 Presidential campaigns have proved to be unusually entertaining, but the emergence of Donald Trump as front-runner represents the first serious challenge in decades to the hegemony of the Democrat-Republican party state.
Original Air Date: March 28, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 5 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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The attack on Southern symbols has nothing to do with opposing slavery or helping black Americans. It is an attempt to eliminate an important cultural and political tradition that goes back to Washington, Jefferson, and Madison. Such campaigns to eliminate historic identities are defined--and condemned--in international law as "cultural genocide." Cultural genocide is not a technique used by free republics but by totalitarian ideological states. Even northerners who have little interest in the South should begin to understand that this attack on the South and its flag-bearing cross will inevitably be followed by overt attacks on Christianity and on America itself.
Original Air Date: December 1, 2015 Show Run Time: 23 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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Dr. Fleming explains the theme of the series, invoking the example of Russian dissidents who were not content to criticize specific policies of the USSR but zeroed in on the flawed principles on which the regime rested. The USA, which began as a constitutional republic, has tended more and more to accept the principles of the French Revolution. Even conservatives accept leftwing theories of equality and human rights as the cornerstone of their ideology. To resist the radicalization of America, we must debunk the false principles that justify the destruction of authentic American liberties.
Original Air Date: November 20, 2015 Show Run Time: 17 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): James Easton
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In this second part of a two part mini series on the Oresteia, Dr. Fleming explores themes and characters in the second and third plays in the cycle, the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides. He examines the role of fate in what Orestes does, the horror of blood guilt in relation to justice, how Athena tames the Furies eventually, and how she began this process using the conceit of a legal proceeding, in a courtroom.
Original Air Date: December 17, 2016 Show Run Time: 52 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, Dr. Fleming examines one of the masterpieces of Greek tragedy: the Oresteia. Before taking a close look at all three plays, Dr. Fleming begins by discussing Aeschylus himself, the historical and political circumstances in which this play was written and delivered, the idea of these plays as “liturgical,” and the position that this is perhaps the best of what the classical world could offer in terms of pre-Christian morality. This is part 1 of a 2 part mini series and offers an introduction and a discussion of the first play, Agamemnon.
Original Air Date: November 5, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 3 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this second part of a two part mini-series on Seneca and Stoicism, Dr. Fleming takes a closer look at five letters from the first volume of Moral Letters to Lucillius.
Feel free to reference the following letters during our discussion today:
On Saving Time (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_1)
On the Philosopher’s Mean (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_5)
On Quibbling as Unworthy of the Philosopher (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_48)
On the Reasons from Withdrawing from the World (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_14)
On Philosophy and Friendship (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_9)
We examine threads that very much mirror a development in moral thinking as “revolutionary” as the New Testament’s completion of the admonitions and philosophy of the Old Testament.
Original Air Date: October 14, 2016 Show Run Time: 46 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this first part of a two part mini-series on Seneca and Stoicism, Dr. Fleming explores the themes of Stoicism and how it fits with the disjunction between Roman moral philosophy and pagan behaviors. We also explore the thinking of Marcus Aurelius and how we can understand his existence in contrast with Caligula and Nero.
Original Air Date: September 30, 2016 Show Run Time: 41 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this episode of Christianity and Classical Culture, we continue a discussion of Sophocles that started with Oedipus Rex. We continue by discussing both Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone in depth. Dr. Fleming knows these plays very well and it is a real treat to listen to his discussion of the various threads within these plays and the interpretation of them both in their time and in ours.
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Notes
Recommended translations: 1) the Loeb Greek/English edition by Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, a thoughtful and intelligent wrestling with the Greek text, and 2) Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, for their beautiful and powerful verse-rendering--eminently readable and actable.
Original Air Date: May 8, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 8 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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This month our exploration into the links between Christianity and Classical culture take us into the world of Greek tragedy, specifically the world of Sophocles.
Dr. Thomas Fleming explains how Greek tragedy was delivered and acted, how it was composed, and how the seven plays we do have of Sophocles may have managed to survive for 2,500 years.
In the second half of the episode we explore Oedipus Rex, the first in the cycle of the Theban plays. How do the Greeks view this tension between free will and divine foreknowledge? How can we compare the Greek view to the Christian view?
We also look at striking similarities between the attitude and behavior of Oedipus and that of the United States of the last 25-40 years.
We hope you enjoy this first part of a two part mini-series on Sophocles and these plays.
Notes
Recommended translations: 1) the Loeb Greek/English edition by Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, a thoughtful and intelligent wrestling with the Greek text, and 2) Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, for their beautiful and powerful verse-rendering--eminently readable and actable.
Original Air Date: April 15, 2016 Show Run Time: 1 hour 5 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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What do we mean when we say “the great monotheistic religions”? Can we even grant the premise of the question? How can we reconcile admiration for classical culture, which was polytheistic, with the practice of Christianity, which is monotheistic? How did the early Christian fathers, including St. Augustine and Tertullian, examine this tension between Athens and Jerusalem? Can we argue that the timing of the Incarnation allowed for the Church to derive maximum benefit from Roman law and government and Greek philosophy?
Dr. Thomas Fleming and host Stephen Heiner examine these and many other questions on this month’s episode.
Original Air Date: February 28, 2016 Show Run Time: 58 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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What is the Christian Tradition regarding immigration? How is that tradition related to the way the ancients saw this issue? What’s a responsible and realistic way to examine this important issue in today’s postmodern soup? Dr. Fleming takes on this timeless issue which is on the minds of many, not just in America, but in Europe as well.
Original Air Date: January 12, 2016 Show Run Time: 47 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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Recorded in the week following the Supreme Court "ruling" in America which was said to show that #lovewins Dr. Fleming discusses marriage from the very beginning of societal relationships, through the age of Christendom, to our present day, and how the Protestant Revolt changed the dynamic of the state's involvement in marriage, and all that we have reaped (and continue to reap to this day) as a result.
Original Air Date: December 1, 2015 Show Run Time: 1 hour 1 minute Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this origin episode of the podcast Dr. Fleming talks about the inexorable and necessary link between Christianity and classical culture: why the superstructure of the best of the pagan world often provided good foundations for Christian beliefs, teachings, and practices.
Original Air Date: November 23, 2015 Show Run Time: 20 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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In this reaction to Trump’s election, Dr. Fleming reflects on Election Night, what this means for Trump voters and for the country, whether Hilary will (or should) be pardoned, whether this is the beginning of a counter-revolution, and whether Mr. Kurtz has been replaced by Long John Silver.
Because of the special circumstances of this election, this podcast is being made free to the general public.
Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: November 10, 2016 Show Run Time: 35 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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On this special edition of the podcasts of the Fleming Foundation, our founder, Dr. Thomas Fleming, shares his impressions of the first Presidential Candidates’ Debate of the 2016 Election. If you’re new to the Foundation and our work, please register as a free user and get access to some of our content.
Show Sponsor: Members Who Support Our Work Original Air Date: September 27, 2016 Show Run Time: 37 minutes Show Guest(s): Dr. Thomas Fleming Show Host(s): Stephen Heiner
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