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, July 15, 2020

Picks of the Month

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            Like many others, we tend to lose track of time during this season of plague, when one day is pretty much like the last, a...
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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Death and the Virus

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                         All politics is local, and so at heart is most journalism.   I once read an anecdote concern...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Pasts Imperfect

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         \               The most precious book in my library is a small format edition of Pe...
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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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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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