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SUPERMAN Is Fearfully and Wonderfully Woke

A Miscellany for the 238th Anniversary of the Northwest Ordinance, Which Outlawed Slavery in the Early Midwest

A Miscellany For Nanci Griffith's Birthday

Walter Ong: Genius Restructures Consciousness

A Miscellany for the 47th Anniversary of the Discovery of Charon

A Miscellany For the Day After No Kings Day

A Miscellany for the Beginning of June

Interview with Maria Bowler about "Making Time"

"Skills" No. "Activities," Maybe

The Big Second Half of the Second Half of 2025 Book Preview!

The Big Second Half of 2025 Book Preview!

McLuhan Works You Over Completely

Talking With Alan Jacobs About John Milton

The Worst Thing About ChatGPT in Schools Is That It Kills Trust

A Miscellany for the Beginning of May

Media Ecology By Other Means I: Cave Art

"Nashville" at 50, Altman at 100

Back next week

How to Be a Cultural Critic

Longing For Woke's Avenging Return

some capsule reviews

On the Idea That We Need a Harsher Literary Culture

"Media Ecology Is General Semantics Writ Large"

What MFAs Are Good For

Trumpism and Empty Men

How to Survive Intense Social Awkwardness

Capsule Reviews, Stray Thoughts, and Accountability Posting

You Don't Need a Postman To Know It's Mostly Junk Mail

This Week's Boring, Earnest Political Post

A Creative Writing Exercise

Two Announcements

What I'm Going To Do, I Think/What I Think I Did (2-9-25)

The Decade of No TV

What I'm Going to Do, I Think

The Media Ecologists

Robinson and Dillard: Wrapping Up

Chin Up

Marilynne Robinson and John Calvin

On a Moment That Shouldn't Work

How, Why, and Why Not to Make a Diverse Syllabus

New Year's Resolutions, 2025

2025 Book Preview, Radically Reduced Edition

*My* Great 2025 Book Preview, Pt. II: Fiction, Poetry, and Belles-Lettres

*My* Great 2025 Book Preview, Pt I: "Nonfiction"