Stranger Things Have Happened: The Civil War among Media Forms

By |2016-11-23T20:19:57-06:00September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Christopher Morrissey, Culture, Featured, Information Age, Science, Technology|

“There’s Nothing Like a Best Seller to Set Hollywood a-Tingle” —The New York Times Book Review (Sep 16, 1962) “I’d willingly start my next novel—about a small town—right now, but I need the diversion of a play.” —John O’Hara, The New York Times Book Review (Nov 27, 1955) “For most of our lifetime civil war [...]

Life in the Image-World

By |2019-09-05T12:54:46-05:00August 23rd, 2016|Categories: Character, Civil Society, Culture, Featured, Film, George Stanciu, History, Information Age, Modernity, St. John's College, Technology, Television|

Recently, I went with a group of friends to a concert of American choral music based on black spirituals. At the intermission, my friends and I spoke excitedly about what we experienced. The sole musician amongst us praised the balance of the ensemble and the conductor’s energy. One woman noticed how nervous the lead soprano [...]

Informing Ourselves to Death

By |2018-08-13T10:15:44-05:00May 16th, 2014|Categories: Culture, Information Age, Intelligence, Neil Postman, Technology|

The great English playwright and social philosopher George Bernard Shaw once remarked that all professions are conspiracies against the common folk. He meant that those who belong to elite trades—physicians, lawyers, teachers, and scientists—protect their special status by creating vocabularies that are incomprehensible to the general public. This process prevents outsiders from understanding what the [...]

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