Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche

"Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" is the personal web log of John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University. It continues in its title and its spirit his one-time newspaper column in The Daily Princetonian. As a general rule a new post is mounted every Wednesday morning (EST).

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Martin Malia's USSR

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In organizing their scholarly shindigs, academics tend to favor the centenary—the so-many-hundredth anniversary of this or tha...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Elusive Tipping Point

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Have we reached a “tipping point” in terms of a general social acquiescence in sexual harassment?   That is the question raised, and see...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

House of Cads

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We are sometimes a little late, but we eventually get around to things.   Only a couple of days ago we watched another Netflix episode o...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Adventures of a Nutty Professor

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  the fruit of the juglans nigra According to a pleasant legend Isaac Newton sat musing beneath an apple tree when a falling p...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

In Memoriam M. J. C.

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  Michael Curschmann (1936-2017) I am not big on trigger warnings, but since I am aware that what I have to say today i...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Last Days of Columbus

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               Monday last was Columbus Day.    For me the sole practical implication of that fact was that there was no mail...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Soviet Communism Then and Now

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Berlin 1945 We are very near the centenary of the Bolshevik coup d’ét at or “October Revolution” of 1917 that brought the Commu...
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John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, retired after a long teaching career in 2006. He and his wife Joan continue to live in Princeton. The Flemings have three adult children, six delightful grandchildren, and lives that mysteriously continue to be busy.He can be reached at jfleming@princeton.edu.
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