Thomas Fleming is the former editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is the author of The Politics of Human Nature, Montenegro: The Divided Land, and The Morality of Everyday Life, named Editors' Choice in philosophy by Booklist in 2005. He is the coauthor of The Conservative Movement and the editor of Immigration and the American Identity. He holds a Ph.D. in classics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Before joining the Rockford Institute, he taught classics at the University of Miami of Ohio, served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education, and was headmaster at the Archibald Rutledge Academy. He has been published in, among others, The Spectator (London), Independent on Sunday (London), Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Sun-Times, National Review, Classical Journal, Telos, and Modern Age. He and his wife, Gail, have four children and four grandchildren.
ARTICLES BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR:
On the Wings of a Snow White Dove
No News Is Good News
The Ugly Beautiful Losers
A Visit to Ali Pasha, Part 2
A Visit to Ali Pasha
Living With the Past
America’s Best Friend, R.I.P.
Nuclear Baksheesh
Mapping Verona
The Shape of Sicilian Water
Tom Fleming’s Complainte
Family Tradition
Why They Fought
A Plague on Both Their Houses
A Different Drum
Aliens and Strangers
Dante’s Path to Heaven
Political Poltergeists
Rebuilding the Family Castle
Thinking Outside the Boxes
And All Shall Equal Be
The Wasted Century
Virtual Neighborhoods
America’s Grand Strategy
Eugenio Corti, R.I.P.
National Debtors
Eugenio Corti, R.I.P.
In Search of the Bourgeoisie
The Mandela Mandala
Wiseguys
Answering Islam
The Making of Books
Terminators, Inc.
Goodbye to All What?
The Best Schooling Money Can Buy
Looking Backwards
Topsy-Turvy
Classical Christian Marriage
Fiat Values
Facts and Opinions
Thoroughly Modern Millies
Dead Souls
Freedom From Religion
Voting for Monarchy
"We Want the World, and We Want It Now!"
Men Men Men Men Manly Men Men Men
Escapist Fantasies
Never Never Shall Be Slaves
Do Androids Tweet...?
Texas's Pound of Pluck
Dead Stars,Black Holes
Revolting Parasites
Lessons of the War
In the Gutter With the GOP
Rome and Jerusalem
The Tyranny of Democracy
The Hollywood Horror
Deforming Education
Home Rule
Home for Political Animals
Our Sacred Anticanon
The Unentitled
The Algebra of Equality
To Save One Child
Back to the Garden
The Five Good Reasons
Five Really Good Reasons
Freedom From Religion
Children of the Revolution
Break out the Booze?
Looking Backwards
Lighting a Candle
Cursing the Darkness
Save the Children
Dark Age to Dark Age
Cheating "Honest" Men
Divide and Conquer
Print the Legend
Redesigned
When the Going Gets Tough. . .
Fish or Cut Bait
Going Through the Motions
Something to Remember
Remembering Who We Were
Substandard: The End of an Illusion
Stepping Backward
Wallow in the Mire
Johnny Rocco’s World
The Good Life
To the Future, and Beyond!
Immigration, Neighbors, and Enemies
Free Men of a Republic
No Problem
Dead Romans and Live Americans
Self-Evident Lies
Il Whig in Italia
Rendering Unto Lincoln
Uncle Sam's Harem
Christmas Nightmares
Whither the Republic?
The Burden of History
The Audacity of Hate
Chinese Monkeys on Our Backs
Lost in the 50’s
Sex and Marriage in San Francisco
Bush’s Whips, McCain’s Scorpions
Texas: Exes and Sexes
The Pursuit of Happiness
Beastie Boys
Little Aristocracies of Our Own
Our Open (Borders) Secret
The Suicide of the West
The Politics of Human Interests
Freedom of Conscience
Wiccan Warming
“Make Me Do Right or Make Me Do Wrong, I’m Your Puppet”
Counting People and People Who Count
Connoisseur of Chaos
Ted’s Timor Mortis
Establishing Christian America
Sense and Sensibility
Our Fathers’ Fields
Dead Monkeys and the Living God
If Pigs Could Fly
Pigs Is Pigs
Two Oinks for Democracy
Jihad's Fifth Column
El Gringo y El Mexicano
The Root of All Evil
The Gods of Athens
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
In a Savage World
Socialism Is Theft
Violent Revolution
Imposing Utopia
Why the Empire Fell
New Wine in Old Bottles
Where the Ashley and the Cooper Rivers Meet . . .
The Royal Prerogative
Lost in Translation
Europe’s Belgian Future
Stargazing
Fortifying the Backyard
Flickers of Resistance
Riots in France
The Beauty of Holiness, the Holiness of Beauty
The Cataclysm That Happened
Agrarianism From Hesiod to Bradford
Lessons From Experience
Christians Against Terrorism
It Takes an Autodidact
James B. Stockdale, R.I.P.
The Republic We Betrayed
Heroes in the Age of the Antihero
The Balkans in Brief
The Suicide Strategy of the West
Peace in the Land of Sojourn
Requiescat In Pace Domini
Synthesizing Tyranny
Anarcho-Tyranny, Rockford Style
Rome Revisited
Human, Not-Quite Human
Tsunami on St. Stephen's Day
Selling Muhammad the Rope
The Remnant’s Library
Love the One You’re With
In the Wake of November
The Plight of the Homeless
Shop Like You Mean It
Where’s Joe McCarthy When You Need Him?
The Call of Blood
Fighting Among the Hedgerows
Toward the Heavenly City
Doing Death
Hatemongers
Honest Journalist
Cultural Suicide
Tax Slavery
“Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man”
Charity Begins at Church
The Conservative Search for Order
Rockford and Gomorrah
Moon-Man Religion
What Was, and What Might Have Been
The Christian Militant
Superior Fiction
Back to Reality
If It Ain’t Broke . . .
Loyal Opposition
Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy
It Was the Worst of Times
Le dernier rire
Imitation of Life
Hello, Mr. Clint
Santorum, the Supreme Court, and Sodomy
Men in Black
Remember From Whence Thou Art Fallen
Living the Jacobin Dream
Bubba Peugeot and the Pickerel
Affirmative Agitprop
Imperialism From the Cradle to the Grave
Taking Up the Cross
Singing the Internationale
Inside the Court of the Gentiles
Boethius and/or Cassiodorus
In Praise of the Clan
Getting Rid of Rivals
Made in USA
Against the Obscurantists
To Arm or Not to Arm
Eating With Sinners
The Church Militant
A Landmark Decision
Deracinated Americans
Yes, Virginia, There Is a Good English-Latin Dictionary
Turn Left at the Renaissance
A Nation of Losers
Ernest Van Den Haag, R.I.P.
Recessional
Anti-Imperial Judo
Back to Althusius
The Decline and Fall of the Midwest
Sit Down, Be Comfortable!
Abuse Your Illusions
A Consensus
Sinking to an All Time Low
The Tower of Skulls
Redeeming the Time The Days are Evil
It Ain't Me?
Friday Breakfast
"Wasted Away Again in Margaritaville"
Flies Trapped in Honey
The Italian Election
Being Bill O'Reilly
Thirty Years Ago . . .
Two Rooms With a View
Collision Course
The Conservative War on Property
War and Peace, and Politics
The Conspiracy of Conspiracies
Free Greeks, Servile Americans
Bad Catholics, Good Europeans
Rediscovering Fire
A Great Non-Event
Hand-Me-Down Truth
The Autocrat of the Dinner Table
Vote Claudius: He'll Leave Your Sons Alone
Our Constitutional Covenant With Death
Crowned With Thorns and Glory
A Killing Privacy
Burn This Book
Hoisting the Donkey
A Revolution to Save the World
Why Don't We Mind Our Own Business?
The Emperor's Tattoo
A Lot in Common
The Art of Creation An Interview With Dean Koontz
Government Vs. Family Issue
NATO's Dark Age
Everything Is Jake
Cultural Genocide
In the Time of the Breaking of Nations
Of Rights and Rabbits
A Running Gag
X2K: aut Christus aut nihil
Love and Grace
Return of the Alien
FBI/BATF Raid
Peace and Security in Europe?
None More Terrible Than Man
Grow Old Along With Me
Remember the Maine
Closer Cooperation
Land Without Justice
The Only Game in Town
Defending the Family From Its Defenders
The "Silent Majority"
The Great American Purge
An Insulting Budget
Diary of a Peripheral Male
A "Constitutional Crisis"
East Is East and West Is Wuss
The Source
Turn to the Dark Side
Dirtiest Campaign in Recent Memory
One World, One Leader, One god
The Fall and Rise of the House of Hardy
Not a Fit Topic for Discussion
Jefferson or Mussolini?
Scorched Earth
Zbigniew Herbert, R.I.P.
Mob Rules
French Vocabulary
It Takes a Village
How Thomas Rent the Seamless Garment
Selling the Golden Cord
Sanctions and U.S. Foreign Policy
Put Out More Flags
Triumphant Return
Dial M for Murdoch
The Heart's Geography
Restless Natives
Billwatch
Worry About Ratings
Anthems for Doomed Youth
Playing God, or Being Men?
Religious Rights and Wrongs
White Like Me
Glorified on TV
POL POT
From White House to Blockhouse
Bad Eggs
Pilgrim's Digress
A Mediocre Showing
A Silly Kind of Holiday
Birth of a Nation
Sarajevo Today, Chicago Tomorrow
Utopias Unlimited
The Boerne Case
Hanging With Our Friends
When the Blind Study Art
Imperial Washington
Other People
Here Come the Judge
Cabbages and Worms
The Sacraments of Anti-Christ
A Lost Art
The Evil of Banality
Making Fools of American Leadership
Shame and Science
Battles of the Books
Indispensable Petrarch
Electoral Triumph
Treason Against the New Order
It^s All Too Beautiful
An Anti-Gang Model
Virtual Democracy
The Language of Literature
Man, Man, and Again Man
Nonsense as Nationalism
What Are Hate Crimes?
Under the Ruble or An Idiot Abroad
Athens and Jerusalem
From Bryan to Buchanan
The "Imperial Presidency"
Talking to Strangers
Reintroduction of Chain Gangs
The Illusions of Democracy
Under Western Lies
Power for Sale
The Winter of Scottish Discontent
Warts and All
John Bull Turns Johnny Reb
Caliban in the Classroom
April 19, 1995: A View to a Kill
It's Stupid, the Economy
Literature Among the Ruins
A Simple Farmer
What Do Women Want?
Civis Romanus Sum
Brief Mentions
Murray Rothbard, R.I.P.
Turning Rights into Wrongs
R.I.P. Erwin Knoll
November Elections
The Balkans War
Crime and Welfare
The Lesson of the Roaring Parrot
Why Monkeys Get Fat in Banana Republics
A Philanthropic Journalist
Dishonesty of the Media Establishment
On Liberal Education
The Italian Revolution
Equality or Privilege
In Praise of Sex and Violence
Mother Goose vs. Hell
Southern Men, American Persons
Turn Out the Lights
Don't Tread on Us
My Old Man
Out of the Rubble, A Christian State?
The Ruined Tenement
Middle American Gothic
American Policy in Somalia
Italian Lessons
Puppets and Their Masters
Jesting With Pilate
Ghosts in the Graveyard
Mind Your Own Business
Middle American Helots
This Land for Hire
Trollopes in the Stacks
More Than a Statue
Buying Up American Symbols
Rag and Bone Shops of the Mind
A League of Our Own
The Honeymoon is Over
Uncommon Properties
A 'Given' of American Life
Voting Behind the Veil of Ignorance
Go East, Young Man
War Fever
Literature and the Curriculum
Come and Gone
I Love to Tell the Story
New World Disorder
New American Holiday
Leveraged Buyout
The Cultural Middleman
Law and/or Order
A Note of Reality
Marriage—the Real Right to Privacy
Getting More Interesting Every Day
Unholy Dying
Flies Trapped in Honey
America First 1941/1991
There and Back Again
Ishmael Among the Scriveners
Botched Coup
America, From Republic to Ant Farm
A Constant Plague
This Year's Catchphrase
Science Fictions
The Broken Promise of American Life
Sublime As Ever
Donald Siegel, R.I.P.
America Through the Looking Glass
The New Fusionism
New World Order
Surviving in the New World Order
Poets and the Art of Interior Design
Divorce Italian Style
First Fruits
The Loser in a Lawn Chair
Further Reflections on Violence
Revolution and Tradition in the Humanities Curriculum
Why Are You Happy?
Short Views on Earth Day
Controversial
A Not So Wonderful Life
The Art of Revolution
Conscientious Refusal
Be Angry at the Sun
Science, Wisdom, and Moral Judgment
Government of the People
The Consolations of Philosophy
Peace on Earth Among Men of Good Will
Banana Republicans
Nunc Est Bibendum
A Prayer for My Daughters
The Closing of the Conservative Mind
Rock and Roll Never Forgets
Second Thoughts
The Legacy of 1789
Life and Death in a House Divided
The Real American Dilemma
Kazin and Caligula?
The Dangerous Myth of Human Rights
Traveler's Tales
Diplomats, Dupes, and Traitors
Rights of Clergy
Citizens of the Welfare State
Sexual Habits
Freedom of Opinion and Democracy
Avoiding Democracy
Homage To T.S. Eliot
The Statecraft of Stooges
A Time to Reap
Place of Asylum
Tyranny In a Good Cause
West Beats East
The Price Of Free Verse
Cultural Conservation
The Triumph of Time
Arms and The Man
Thrice-Told Tales
Literacy Before the Revolution
No Latin, Much Less Greek
The Magnificent Tarkington
The Business of Business
Speak the Word Only
Plain People
The Uses of Diversity: Recovering the Recent Past
Short Views
Going Back to Charleston
Journalists and Other Anthropoids
Fruitless Grain
Old Adam, New Eve
Getting America Right
Rock 'N' Roll Never Forgets: Healing the Wounds of the 60's
Trouble in Paradise
Conspiracies Against the Nation
King, Queen, Knave—Mind, Brain, and Body
Successful Crimes
Between the Lines
Aloha, Captain Cook
Shelter From the Storm
Zeus, Whoever He Is
All Gone in Search of America
La Vie en Rouge
Waiting For the End
Leave the Kids Alone
The Serbian Muse