Cell Phones, Radio, and the Philosophy of Marshall McLuhan
“Hot” media and “cool” media were McLuhan’s buzz dichotomy. A hot medium is one that extends one of our senses. A cool medium is one that requires a lot from one of our senses.
Topic
Biography
A collection of 120 issues
Absinthe Minded
Barnaby Conrad III at the New Criterion
Blessed Henri de Lubac?
George Weigel at First Things
Why I am Now a Christian
Ayaan Hirsi Ali at UnHerd
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
Robert Zaretsky at The American Scholar
Famous Amos
Kyle Smith at The New Criterion
The Canonization of Lou Reed
Jeremy Lybarger at The New Republic
Jon Fosse's Fiction
Jonathan Geltner at Close Reading
Can the Right Hemisphere Atrophy?
Darwin thought so
The Nothing Desire
“The poor monk is lord of world.” St. John Climacus
Bruno was a rising star of eleventh-century European culture. A master of the cathedral school (the precursor to the university) of Rheims, he taught grammar, poetry, philosophy and theology. He became head of Rheims by age thirty. The most promising