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Article: Hartmut Rosa on Resonance (REVIEW ESSAY) - Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (born in 1965; Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, 1997) is the author of Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, translated by James C. Wagner (Polity, 2019; orig. German ed., 2016). Perhaps Rosa's book Resonance could prompt us to develop a new world-as-resonance sense of life.
Article: The Editors of Commonweal on the Vatican's New 2024 Declaration (REVIEW ESSAY) - The Editors of the liberal lay Catholic magazine Commonweal published 'Dignity and Gender: Evaluating 'Dignitas Infinita'' on April 18, 2024. In the present essay, I continue my recent reflections in my OEN articles on the Vatican's new 2024 Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith titled 'Dignitas Infiniti,' which was released on April 8, 2024.
Article: Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY) - In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory.
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 University's 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 social media.
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 D'Eloia (1943-1990).