Bruce Fleming majored in philosophy at Haverford College and is in his twenty-sixth year teaching English to midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy. His books and articles, on subjects ranging from Modernism to dance to politics to the military, include Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide, Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash, and Autumn: Life, Death and Literature at the U.S. Naval Academy. In recent years his op-eds have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, and elsewhere. He has won an O. Henry Prize and the Antioch Review Award for Distinguished Prose, as well as the navy’s Meritorious service Medal, and lives with his family outside Annapolis. (updated 4/2013)