Dr. Thomas Fleming is president of the Fleming Foundation. He is the author of six books, including “The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition,” “The Politics of Human Nature,” and “The Conservative Movement” co-written with Paul Gottfried.
From 1984 to 2015, Fleming was editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, published by The Rockford Institute, where he served as president from 1997 to 2014. He was also the founding editor of Southern Partisan magazine.
As a prolific writer, speaker, and lecturer, Fleming’s essays on politics, culture, ethics, and classical subjects have appeared in many publications, such as The Washington Post, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Chesterton Review, The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and Classical Journal, as well as verse in journals like The New Oxford Review. His television appearances include PBS, The Today Show, and the BBC.
Fleming received a B.A. in Greek and French from the College of Charleston and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In a previous life, he taught classics at several colleges and served as a school headmaster in South Carolina.
Fleming and I discuss everything from Wisconsin, kinship, Rothbard, and Boethesius, to the Founders, the Straussians, the Endarkenment, and the Velvet Underground. He explains how to “cultivate your mind” while living in the “ruins of civilization,” and how true Christianity is the key to it all.
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A few choice Fleming lectures and essays:
• Kith and Kin: The Enduring Ethic of the South
• The Southern Genocide
• Down With Seuss!
• The South’s Gonna Do It Again
• On Liberty
• The Greek and Roman Agrarian Tradition
• Loss of Southern Accents
• Dueling and Southern Honor
• Cicero Saves the Republic
• The Other Jefferson
• William Shakespeare, Christian Moralist: Love, Family, Justice, and Hamlet
• Fiddling While Rome Burns: Introduction, Part 2, Part 3, and Conclusion
Source: Dissident Mama – Dissident Mama, episode 33 – Dr. Thomas Fleming