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American writer and political commentator

For other people of the same name, see Thomas Fleming (disambiguation).

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 monthly paleoconservative political magazine.

Fleming has been described as a leading figure in developing neo-Confederate ideology.^[1][2][3] He was a founding member of the League of the South, and a founding editor of Southern Partisan magazine in 1979, but later left both organizations.^[1]

Biography

Thomas Fleming was awarded a doctorate in classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing his dissertation on Attic Greek lyric poetry, and until joining a series of conservative groups, taught Latin at a small, private middle school in South Carolina.^[specify][4]