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 26, 2024

The Owl of Minerva

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  One more word about teaching what the world ought to be: Philosophy always arrives too late to do any such teaching. As ...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Vice-Presidential

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  Now that the ex-President and apparently certain Republican candidate for the presidency in the upcoming general electi...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The Ballad Hunters

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                                                       Francis James Child               The expression “fabled in song an...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

École des Chartes

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In this slow news week—yes, I am being ironic--and with the Princeton Commencement now behind us, I find myself reflecting a bit on the stat...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Showing the Flag

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         One of President Clinton’s most famous quotations can serve as the epigraph for this post: “That depends on wha...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Menendezes of New Jersey

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    What’s in a name?   Juliet wants to know.   You may have had reason to ask this question with regard to your own sur...
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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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