Ulyssean Interrogations at Dusk, or Slowing Down at 65
By John Rodden. Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done…. Come, my friends, ’Tis not too late to seek a newer world. …for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the...
Aging White Male Future Shock: The Contemporary Relevance of a Sociological Classic
Future Shock By Alvin Toffler. Random House, 1970. Reviewed by John Rodden. More than seven years after the #MeToo movement exploded in October 2017 in the aftermath of public outrage over allegations of sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, the...
TIME Marches On… Past 100
By John Rodden. The Man of TIME’s Century Who was the most influential journalist in American history? Benjamin Franklin? Horace Greeley? Joseph Pulitzer? William Randolph Hearst? How about Edward R. Murrow? Walter Cronkite? Sufficient grounds exist for all of...
Decades ago, Robert Nisbet anticipated many of today’s concerns about loneliness, bureaucracy, and declining community. Luke C. Sheahan (@lsheahan) revisits the ideas behind those warnings and their relevance today.
Questions about first principles have become fashionable again. @HorcherF and @DanJTPitt apply generosity to smooth contention between intellectuals and politicians, they embrace the tension between theory and practice, and they highlight the power of particularity as a source of