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, June 24, 2020

American Democracy, the Next Take

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            A special commission or committee of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has recently published a hefty pamphlet en...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Amateur Humanism

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            The long-term social and institutional dislocations likely to be caused by the current medical pandemic are by no means a...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

The Coronavirus and Animal Liberation

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It is an ill wind that bloweth no man good, and I suspect that future commentators will find that even in the lowering sky of a vira...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Summer of Our Discontent

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There are good and bad things about aging.  One of the good things is the possibility at least of an increment in wisdom based on actual l...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Fact and Counterfact

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“Here’s the thing,” says one of Hillary’s more likeable apparatchiks, “We can spend years pondering why American voters can be dipshits...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Bambusoideled

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We remain digital ingenus, and we learned only this week, and by accident, that Alexa has a “question of the day” for the general am...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Socially Distanced

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We are in a demographic more likely than many others to tolerate more or less equably the enforced social isolation of the past two m...
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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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