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).