Article: Pope Francis on the Climate Crisis (REVIEW ESSAY) - In 2015, Pope Francis (born in 1936; elected pope in 2013) emerged as a towering public intellectual on the world stage with his widely read eco-encyclical titled Laudato Si (meaning Praise Be to You ). On October 4, 2023, the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi (c.1181-1226), Pope Francis renewed his concerns about the climate crisis in his terse new apostolic exhortation titled Laudate Deum ( Praise God ).
Article: Joseph Henrich s Acronym WEIRD (Review Essay) - In Daniel Bergner s recent op-ed commentary in the New York Times (dated June 2, 2023), he uses the technical term anosognosia from the field of mental health. But I want o use the term metaphorically here to suggest how our distinctively Western vowelized phonetic alphabetic literacy may be preventing us from critically examining the work of Walter J. Ong, Eric A. Havelock, Jack Goody, and now Joseph Henrich in his 2020 book.