John V. Fleming

Reflections on impactful teachers.

Monday last was Columbus Day. For me the sole practical implication of that fact was that there was no mail delivery, but I was aware of a cloud of metaphysical implications forming on the horizon.

There were mobs of folks arriving at Heathrow in early September and mobs arriving at Newark yesterday—some of them, doubtless, like us, parts of both mobs.

Our eldest child, Richard, is a man of parts, his best part being his spouse Katie Dixon.

French intellectual life must remain admirable and even inspirational to an American observer. 
—John V. Fleming