The New Storytelling, From Tocqueville to Fortnite
By Titus Techera Computer games are the least discussed of our massive entertainment industries. Gaming is uniquely dominated by men and newest among our forms of entertainment, so the suspicion that it owes its success to its criticism of our society is still fresh....
Prophets of Paradise?
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2016. Hardcover, 360 pages, $15. Reviewed by Jacob Bruggeman Historians and science fiction writers, philosophers and some politicians, have for decades warned us of the...The Dignity Conspiracy and its Strange Hold on Our Souls
Modern and American Dignity: Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future by Peter Augustine Lawler (ISI Books, 2010). In response to the essay collection Human Dignity and Bioethics, published by George W. Bush’s President’s Council on Bioethics, Steven...
Thinking Ourselves into Oblivion ----- @DWeinberger03 reviews Why We Think What We Think: The Rise and Fall of Western Thought by Dan LeRoy. @sophiapress
The “Christian Nationalism” Canard--@tomsarroufjr reviews "Why #ChristianNationalism Is Not an Existential Threat to America or the Church" by @MDH_GFU.