Article: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., and Walter J. Ong, S.J., on Male Agonism (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging 6,000-word review essay, I discuss the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian Walter J. Ong s studies of male agonism and the conservative American political philosopher Harvey C. Mansfield s views.
Article: Thomas J. Farrell on Walter J. Ong, S.J. (REVIEW ESSAY) - For my 600th OEN article, I am writing to call your attention to my three articles and six reviews in the new issue of the online journal New Explorations. In my nine selections, I highlight the work 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).
Article: Adam Nicolson on Life Lessons from the Early Greeks (REVIEW ESSAY) - The prolific English author Adam Nicolson (born in 1957) writes about early Greek philosophical thought in his new 2023 book How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). But I situate Nicolson s thought in the broader conceptual framework of the thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong.
Article: Jeff Jarvis on the Age of Print and the Age of the Internet (REVIEW ESSAY) - The American journalist Jeff Jarvis (born in 1954) has published the accessible new 2023 book The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet (Bloomsbury Academic). I discuss his book in connection with the work 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).
Article: The Roman Catholic Church as a Cultural Empire (REVIEW ESSAY) - As a follow up to my recent OEN article Robert P. Jones on the Doctrine of Discovery (dated September 15, 2023), I now want to discuss further his new 2023 book The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future (Simon & Schuster) and certain other related works concerning the Roman Catholic Church.