[independent source needed] As of June 2015, Fleming retired as editor of Chronicles magazine,[9] but continued contributing articles on an occasional basis.
[1][2][3] Criticizing mass immigration into the United States, Fleming, in an essay in Immigration and the American Future, wrote that American elites peddle a form of propositionalism:[independent source needed] "This abstract approach to assimilation derives, ultimately, from the conviction - as naive as it is chauvinistic - that America is an exceptional country, one not rooted in blood, soil, and kinship, but a nation 'dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal'.
Proponents of this are quick to label the more old-fashioned view, that the nation is a metaphorical extended family, as bigotry, but no amount of repetition or rhetorical extravagance can disguise the dangerous logic that is at work.
"[13][excessive quote] Like Paul, Fleming favors non-interventionism and has attacked some of its supporters as "dumb-as-a-pile-of-rocks Tea-Partiers who have sold their souls... to anti-Christian neoconservatives".
[14][independent source needed] Fleming affirms the Roman Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy and has urged the Eastern Orthodox Churches to submit to the immediate, universal jurisdiction and absolute authority of the See of Rome.
[independent source needed] He notes, "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.
"[14][non-primary source needed] Fleming 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:[independent source needed] The Southern Poverty Law Center has listed Fleming as a key intellectual in the neo-Confederate movement.
'"[19] Fleming has strenuously denied these allegations, writing: "It is an easy trick of propaganda to portray all natural affections in the dark colors of prejudice.
These people have lies in their mouths, blood on their hands for the great genocides of the 20th century, and guilt on their consciences for the seduction of the innocent and the destruction of our civilization.
Our task, as our late friend Mel Bradford put it, is to remember who we are and stop our ears against the siren songs of the revolutionists, which have proved to be not the anthems of a new dawn but a message of hate and filth that leads to destruction.