Bruce Fleming has taught at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, the National University of Rwanda, and, for more than 30 years, at the US Naval Academy. He is the author most recently of Democracy's Achilles Heel: The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute, The End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia, What Does 'Art' Mean Now?, The Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor, Masculinity from the Inside, and Saving Our Service Academies: My Battle with, and for, the US Naval Academy to Make Thinking Officers.