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, January 10, 2024

Harvard, Humiliated

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  It has been a month since I wrote about the disastrous Congressional hearing at which the presidents of three of our mos...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

From the Irresolute Desk

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Jacob Bryant        My possibly cryptic title invokes a famous piece of nineteenth-century furniture, somewhat reminiscent of a small, beach...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Langone Christmas

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Life is sort of like a box of chocolates--but not really very much like one. But the sharp edges on the box may come to mind. On Christmas ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Christmas: Father, Son, and Uncle

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    James Magnuson—novelist, playwright, for many years the Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the Universit...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Prexies Under Fire

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    Necessity demands   yet another essay related to the war in Gaza.   I undertake it with reluctance.   But the war ha...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Gaza Blues

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  Like most people, I have read a lot about the often poisonous effects of “social media” on the popular mood and our shar...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The Kennedy Assassination

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    This blog has not devoted much attention to historical anniversaries, but I must make an exception for one just past—t...
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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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