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Dr John Fleming talks about the Middle Ages and the modern world, part 1
I had the distinct pleasure of talking to Dr. Fleming this afternoon. A couple of years ago I started auditing Dr. Fleming’s class on Chaucer and found out that Dr Fleming is the premier American...
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Did you listen this week?
This week my Blog Talk Radio guest was Dr. John FlemingClick here for the podcast:I did a transcript of the interview which you can read here. Just follow the links. My guest next Monday, March 19 at...
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Dr. Fleming reviews Beowulf
My son, who has been corresponding with Dr. Fleming (who is visiting France), just informed me that Dr. Fleming wrote a review of Beowulf for The New Republic:Good Grief, GrendelThere are poor...
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Rewriting Medieval history
This morning Siggy forwarded his post, “What if the Muslim armies hadn’t been stopped at the French border?”. Siggy refers to Joan Acocella’s review in the New Yorker of David Levering Lewis’s book...
View ArticleDr Fleming, new kid on the blog
Dr John Fleming, whom you may remember from our podcast a while ago, is now blogging! His blog’s Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche, where you’ll find his learned and witty writing on Communism, culture,...
View ArticleDr Fleming’s book in today’s WSJ
Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews John Fleming’s book, The Anti-Communist Manifestos: Four Books That Shaped the Cold War, The View From the Inside The enduring testimony of Communists who lost faith....
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What the NYT missed about Robbie George
The Sunday NYT had an interesting article on Princeton University’s professor Robert George, The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker. Professor George uses the ages-old process of human reason for his...
View ArticleDr Fleming goes on location
Princeton professor and world-traveler John Fleming is staying at the flat that was the setting for one of the all-time big real estate movies, Last Tango in Paris, And, apparently, all this happened...
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Dr. Fleming goes to The Cloisters
A few years ago I audited Dr. John V. Fleming’s class on Chaucer, a most wonderful treat, since he’s not only the foremost scholar on the subject but also a great guy. He graciously gave me a poscast...
View ArticleSunday gratitude: Cheap Highs
Dr. Fleming is thankful, I want to introduce a new tool bar button based in one of the old Anglican prayers—“All the Blessings of This Life”. Read his meditation here.
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