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, February 14, 2024

Settler Colonialism

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"Purchase of Manhattan Island" (Historical Society of N.Y.) I recently read with interest a polemical essay ...

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The Inner Sanctum Edition

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War and Peace (Inner Sanctum edition) When I last week an...

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

The Gospel in Brief

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Leo Tolstoy After disappointing postponements caused by the weather, illness, and other forces hostile to conviv...

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Immolated Women

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If you have read Sterne’s Tristram Shandy you may remember the quixotic way Sterne plays with John Locke’s discussion of...

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The End of Merit?

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Meritorious striver and his creator, Horatio Alger “DEI” is hot—or perhaps the verb should be plural, DEI are hot, as ...

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...

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John V. Fleming: 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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