词条 | Thomas Fleming (political writer) |
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Thomas Fleming (born 1945) is a traditionalist Catholic writer, former president of the Rockford Institute, and former editor of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, a political commentary periodical, published monthly, and directed at a paleoconservative audience. The Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994 states: Part provocateur and part historian, Fleming persistently challenges the status quo. Aggressively conservative, he presents exceptionally well-written and forceful arguments, placing his subjects in historical and theological contexts.... Exercising a rare command of language, Fleming passionately defends unpopular causes. In taking a creative approach to his subjects, Fleming yields work that proves scholarly, readable, and provocative.[1] BackgroundThomas Fleming was awarded a doctorate in Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing his dissertation on Attic lyric poetry, and until joining a series of conservative groups, taught Latin at a small, private middle school in South Carolina.[2] In addition to editing, Fleming writes on topics concerning the literature of pagan Greece as well as political issues. Fleming was introduced to the paleoconservative public by Robert W. Whitaker of South Carolina in 1982. At that time, he was invited to contribute to Whitaker's book, The New Right Papers,[3] which put together ways whereby conservative populists could be elected to office through an alliance of people from both parties in the Republican Party. (Whitaker later joined the Reagan administration as a junior member.) Now a recognized name in the conservative movement of the region where he lived, Fleming became a founding member and board member of the League of the South, from which he later resigned when controversy arose, as well as an affiliated scholar of its educational arm, the League of the South Institute.[4] He was the founding editor of the Southern Partisan magazine, started in 1979, until he left when controversy arose there as well. In 1985, after the death of author Leopold Tyrmand, Fleming became editor of Chronicles Magazine, and in 1988 co-wrote The Conservative Movement with Paul Gottfried. As of June 2015, Thomas Fleming is retired as editor of Chronicles magazine.[5] As of the July 2015 issue of Chronicles, the magazine's former Senior Editor For Books, Chilton Williamson Jr., is currently editor for the publication.[6] Fleming continues to occasionally contribute articles to Chronicles. Recent statementsImmigrationCriticizing mass immigration into the United States, Fleming, in an essay in Immigration and the American Future, writes how American elites peddle a form of propositionalism:
He then shows how it relates to immigration:
Ron PaulChronicles Magazine often runs news articles of interest to the old right. Writing on Congressman Ron Paul and his bid for the presidency, Fleming states: Dr. Paul has his zany side: He believes in the Constitution of the old American republic, and he actually thinks it has some relevance for America today. God bless him, I would vote for him if only for pretending to embrace such a heartwarming fantasy. As it is, I am convinced he believes what he says. (His candor and sincerity alone are enough to disqualify him as a serious presidential candidate in these United States.) Paul not only wants, in principle, to restore the republic but also opposes the continued erosion of states’ rights and U.S. sovereignty.[9] Like Paul, Fleming favors non-interventionism and has criticized the neoconservative foreign policy.[10] ReligionFleming supports papal supremacy; urging for the submission and reunion of the Eastern Orthodox churches to the authority of the Catholic Church. He states: The Eastern position, from fairly early on and down to fairly late, was unequivocal in acknowledging the primacy of the Roman bishop, and even today most Orthodox bishops and theologians I know concede that if the Church were reunited, the heir of Peter would preside over the meetings of the patriarchs – indeed, in some Eastern ecclesiastical disputes in recent years, appeals have been made to the Pope.[11] Racism controversyFleming has made several controversial statements regarded by some as racist in nature, although he denies that he and most paleoconservatives support racism. Examples of incendiary comments include the following statements taken from his columns in Chronicles:
The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed Fleming as a key intellectual in what it calls the "neo-Confederate" movement.[14] In a 2002 article on the paleoconservative trend in right wing politics, the SPLC stated: "While mainstream neo-conservatives are tight with the GOP, so-called paleocon intellectuals have carved a niche for themselves as staunch, old-right traditionalists who romanticize the pre-civil rights era South. Fleming, who is Chronicles editor, has gone so far as to describe the 19th century Ku Klux Klan as a 'national liberation army.{{'"}}[15] Fleming has strenuously denied these allegations, writing:
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References1. ^Terry Eastland, ed. Forbes Media Guide Five Hundred, 1994: A Critical Review of the Media (1994) pp 67-68. {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2011}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming, Thomas}}Thomas Fleming2. ^[https://web.archive.org/web/20050525222851/http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Ads/AdAncientHistory.html Advertisement in Chronicles Magazine] 3. ^Robert W. Whitaker, [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312569270/ The New Right Papers.] {{ISBN|0-312-56927-0}} 4. ^The League of the South Institute 5. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/obiter-dictum/ | title = Obiter Dictum | date = May 14, 2015 | website = www.chroniclesmagazine.org | access-date = 2018-03-30 | quote = After leading Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture for over 30 years, Dr. Thomas Fleming is retiring. His last issue as editor is the June number.}} 6. ^http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/contributors/ 7. ^"Up Mexico Way," in Immigration and the American Future, ed. Chilton Williamson, pg. 217. 8. ^"Up Mexico Way," in Immigration and the American Future, ed. Chilton Williamson, pg. 217. 9. ^-----, "Our Open (Borders) Secret", Chronicles Magazine, online edition, 18 Mar 2008. Accessed: 2009.3.27 10. ^https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/rumors-of-wars/ 11. ^-----, comments to "Ignatius II" in Chronicles Magazine, online edition, 21 May 2008. 12. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2009/07/03/credo-for-conservatives-part-iii-order-tradition-and-loyalty/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-08-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004085135/http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2009/07/03/credo-for-conservatives-part-iii-order-tradition-and-loyalty/ |archivedate=4 October 2009 |df=dmy-all }} 13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2009/08/05/clean-jim-dirty-harry-and-barry-the-beer-drinker/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2009-08-13 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004075545/http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/index.php/2009/08/05/clean-jim-dirty-harry-and-barry-the-beer-drinker/ |archivedate=4 October 2009 |df=dmy-all }} 14. ^Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok, "Ideologues" in Intelligence Report, online edition, Winter 2004. 15. ^http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=97 16. ^Fleming, Thomas (2004-07-01) Hatemongers {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105014309/http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2004/07/01/hatemongers/ |date=5 November 2011 }}, Chronicles 21 : 1945 births|Living people|20th-century American non-fiction writers|20th-century American male writers|20th-century Roman Catholics|21st-century American non-fiction writers|21st-century American male writers|21st-century Roman Catholics|American columnists|American political writers|American Roman Catholics|American Traditionalist Catholics|Conservatism in the United States|Critics of neoconservatism|Non-interventionism|Paleoconservatism|Traditionalist Catholic writers|University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni|Writers from Rockford, Illinois|American male non-fiction writers|Catholics from Illinois |
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