This is the typical anti-intellectual attitude that pervades in Trad circles.

Wow, some really flippant comments here -- even for a self admitted college freshman!  Of course, Tom Fleming doesn't need to be a kook to get his points across.  I never claimed he did, but by his own writing on 9-11 (no small horror by any sane man's standards) he is a lot worse than a kook when he publicly pushes one of modern history's most idiotic conspiracy theories imaginable.

There are all kinds of serious traditional Catholic scholars.  As such they should be concerned about speaking and writing the truth and only the truth.  They denigrate themselves and hold themselves up for rightful contempt when they publicly push pure neo-con/Zionist propaganda for the consumption of a dumbed down and politically correct population and or one that is largely held captive by their own cognitive dissonance.

How is it that you just so flippantly blow off the question of 9-11?  Do you have anyone close to you that got killed or severely injured in the immoral, unjust, and criminal pre-emptive actions as well as occupations the United States has undertaken in the Middle East as a result of the false narrative which our own government has fed us, our government which in turn is largely held captive by the Israeli Lobby via AIPAC and hundreds of other Israeli/Jewish interest groups?  Do you even give a damn?

Maybe you can follow in Fleming's footsteps and become an academic with your head wrapped up in your Latin and Greek and whatever else.  You can be like Fleming who appears to have absolutely no problem pushing a monstrously horrific false narrative which has literally led (as it was intended to lead by its originators) to incalculable death and destruction.  It turned out to be death and destruction (which is, of course, still ongoing) at a cost of literally millions of lost innocent lives and not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars.

So what is your response to all that I've said?  I imagine it's what you've already said, that you just "don't really care what folks think of 9/11."  Maybe you think that if the Fathers and St. Thomas were alive today they would not -- in your words -- "waste time on this junk."  Well, you are very wrong.  After all they were wise and courageous saints who were not craven to human respect.  As such they would care deeply about catastrophes that caused untold human suffering, suffering which could very well be greatly mitigated in the present and even prevented in the future by bringing about an awareness of the truth of what led to all the death and destruction in the first place.  These saints didn't hide in ivory towers of Greek and Latin and write propaganda garbage for the powers that be.

As for your telling me to, "Read the Fathers/St. Thomas, [and] get a good grasp on the Faith," I can assure you I have.  That in large part is why I have said what I have said I have in this thread.

Dr. Fleming  is a serious Traditional Catholic scholar who produces original work. He doesn't need to be a kook to get his points across. I don't really care what folks think of 9/11. The events happened, and going on and on about them is pointless. Let's say the government did do it. So what? What are you going to do about it? Read the Fathers/St. Thomas, get a good grasp on the Faith, and don't waste time on this junk.

re: I'd ask you how many of you can read Latin or Greek
In my youth, when the USA was not overrun by Mexicans, I met so many experts in Spanish in my travels through the USA, I stopped counting.  When I started to talk to them in Spanish, they choked. "In the country of blind men, the one eyed man is a king".

re: What do you spend your free time doing?

Free time? Only children with parents that pay for everything have free time to study Greek and theology

Reminds me of what my Dad told me when I said I'd like to study photography (I was 16 years old) : "Nice hobby son for you to do read about in your spare time, but for the real world take up something that can provide for a family".