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Article: Jonathan Haidt on the Epidemic of Mental Illness in Gen Z (REVIEW ESSAY) - The American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (born in 1963; Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) of New York Universitys Stern School of Business has published a disturbing new book about Gen Z, the generation born after 1995, titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Random House). He targets smartphones and so...

Article: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah DEloia (1943-1990).

Article: David Brooks Accessible New 2023 Book (REVIEW ESSAY) - Pope Francis (born in 1936), the first Jesuit pope, has urged people, not just practicing Catholics, to engage in encounter and dialogue. Those people who respond positively to his urging to engage in encounter and dialogue might find David Brooks accessible new 2023 book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (Random House) informative and instructive and encouraging.

Article: Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on Ecophobia (REVIEW ESSAY) - Today I sing of Father Daniel P. Horans superb column titled Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change (dated September 21, 2023) at the website of the National Catholic Reporter.

Article: Daniel P. Horan, O.F.M., on Ecophobia (REVIEW ESSAY) - Today I sing of Father Daniel P. Horans superb column titled Considering the spiritual roots of ecophobia amid climate change (dated September 21, 2023) at the website of the National Catholic Reporter.

Article: Walter J. Ong versus Pope Francis (REVIEW ESSAY) - In recently published remarks, Pope Francis characterizes conservative anti-Francis American Catholics as being backward-looking -- not forward-looking as he sees himself. But he himself is not sufficiently backward-looking regarding the Doctrine of Discovery. The American Jesuit scholar Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) suggests that we need to be both backward-looking and forward-looking.

Article: Charles Taylor on Our Secular Age (REVIEW ESSAY) - In light of the late Ronald F. Ingleharts 2021 book Religions Sudden Decline: Whats Causing it, and What Comes Next? (Oxford University Press), it is time to revisit Charles Taylors 2007 875-page book A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) and the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003).

Article: Walter Ong (1912-2003) on Peter Ramus (1515-1572) (REVIEW ESSAY) - My favorite scholar is the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). With the financial assistance of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he undertook a massive doctoral dissertation on the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) -- which I exa...

Article: Walter Ong (1912-2003) on Peter Ramus (1515-1572) (REVIEW ESSAY) - My favorite scholar is the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). With the financial assistance of two Guggenheim Fellowships, he undertook a massive doctoral dissertation on the French Renaissance logician and educational reformer and Protestant martyr Peter Ramus (1515-1572) -- which I exa...

Article: Thomas D. Zlatic on Walter J. Ong, S.J. (REVIEW ESSAY) - Thomas D. Zlatic has published a beautiful essay about the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955): The Articulate Self in a Particulate World: The Ins and Outs of Ong in the book Language, Culture, and Identity: The Legacy of Walter J. Ong, S.J. (Hampton Press, 2011, pp. 7-29).