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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book WALTER ONG'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO CULTURAL STUDIES: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE WORD AND I-THOU COMMUNICATION (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2000; 2nd ed. 2009, forthcoming). The first edition won the 2001 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology conferred by the Media Ecology Association. For further information about his education and his publications, see his UMD homepage: Click here to visit Dr. Farrell's homepage.
On September 10 and 22, 2009, he discussed Walter Ong's work on the blog radio talk show "Ethics Talk" that is hosted by Hope May in philosophy at Central Michigan University. Each hour-long show has been archived and is available for people who missed the live broadcast to listen to. Here are the website addresses for the two archived shows:
Click here to listen the Technologizing of the Word Interview
Click here to listen the Ramus, Method & The Decay of Dialogue Interview
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Tuesday, November 1, 2022A Tour de Force on T. S. Eliot's Poems, Plays, and Prose (REVIEW ESSAY) As part of my own ongoing personal commemoration of the centennial of the 1922 publication of T. S. Eliot's most famous poem "The Waste Land," I recently read the American Eliot specialist Jewel Spears Brooker's 2018 book T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination (Johns Hopkins University Press) -- a tour de force on Eliot's poems, plays, and prose. If you are already familiar with his poems and plays, you might enjoy her book.
Thursday, October 27, 2022An Accessible and Learned History of Catholic Moral Theology (REVIEW ESSAY) The prolific American Jesuit theologian and ethicist James F. Keenan (born in 1953) of Boston College has written an accessible and learned history of Roman Catholic moral theology in his new 450-page 2022 book A History of Catholic Theological Ethics (Paulist Press). I learned a lot from his book, and I imagine that others will too.
Saturday, October 22, 2022Understanding T. S. Eliot's 1922 Poem "The Waste Land" (REVIEW ESSAY) The American-born Nobel Prize winning poet and influential literary critic Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) published his challenging poem "The Waste Land" in 1922. So 2022 is the centennial years of its publication. To help me commemorate "The Waste Land," I consulted the book Reading "The Waste Land": Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation by Jewel Spears Brooker (born in 1940) and the late Joseph Bentley (1932-1988).
Sunday, October 9, 202260 Years of T. S. Eliot's Prose (REVIEW ESSAY) In the present review essay, I revisit certain aspects of my lengthy OEN article "The American-Born Conservative T. S. Eliot" (dated October 2, 2022). However, in the present review essay, I now call attention to the eight expertly introduced and annotated volumes of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot, edited by Ronald Schuchard and others (Johns Hopkins University Press; Faber and Faber, 2021).
Sunday, October 2, 2022The American-Born Conservative T. S. Eliot (REVIEW ESSAY) OEN readers are progressives and liberals, not conservatives. Nevertheless, we should be concerned that our contemporary fellow Americans of a conservative bent might take a hard-right turn to illiberalism. As a result, we should urge conservative Americans today to read about the American-born conservative Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), rather than embrace a hard-right turn to illiberalism.
Saturday, September 10, 2022John T. McGreevy on Catholicism (REVIEW ESSAY) The American Catholic historian John T. McGreevy (born in 1963; Ph.D. in history, Stanford University, 1992) of the University of Notre Dame has published a fascinating new 500-page book on Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis. It is an admirable global survey of judiciously culled and splendidly narrated historical highlights. Probably almost everybody could learn something new from it.
Sunday, August 28, 2022Walter J. Ong on the World-as-Event Sense of Life (REVIEW ESSAY) The French Christian existentialist philosopher Louis Lavelle worked out a well-developed theistic metaphysics. The American Catholic philosopher James Collins discusses Lavelle's theistic metaphysics in his fine article "Louis Lavelle on Human Participation." I point out here that human participation involves what the American Jesuit cultural historian Walter J. Ong refers to as the world-as-event sense of life.
Sunday, August 21, 2022Romano Guardini Influenced Pope Francis (REVIEW ESSAY) The Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio (born in 1936) started a doctoral dissertation in theology on the work of the prolific and learned Roman Catholic theologian Romano Guardini (1885-1965), which he did not complete. However, after he was elected the first Jesuit pope in 2013, Guardini's influence on his thought has become noteworthy, especially in Pope Francis' 2015 eco-encyclical.
Saturday, August 6, 2022My Open Letter to the Canadian Jesuit Cardinal Michael F. Czerny Pope Francis' recent penitential visit to Canada was well-covered by international secular and religious news media. Subsequently, I decided to write the following open letter to the Czechoslovakian-born Canadian Jesuit Cardinal Michael F. Czerny (born in 1946; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1978), who was appointed by Pope Francis to serve as the Prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Sunday, July 31, 2022Pope Francis Should Now Follow Up His Historic Visit to Canada Pope Francis' historic visit to Canada has come to an end. Now he should follow up his visit by issuing a document formally abrogating the centuries-old "Doctrine of Discovery."
Wednesday, July 27, 2022Loretta Graziano Breuning on Social Comparisons and Brain Chemicals (REVIEW ESSAY) The autodidact in evolutionary psychology Loretta Graziano Breuning (born in 1953; B.S., Cornell University, 1975; Ph.D., Tufts University, 1983) discusses social comparisons and brain chemicals in her new 2021 self-help book Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop (Rowman & Littlefield). We can feel threatened by certain social comparisons. Her account can deepen our understanding of both Donald Trump and his supporters.
Monday, July 4, 2022Pope Francis on Catholic Liturgical Formation (REVIEW ESSAY) Happy Fourth of July! On July 4, 1776, our American founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. It reminds us of our noble American ideals. To be an American requires us to be idealistic, not cynical. In Pope Francis' new 2022 apostolic letter to his fellow Catholics, he, in effect, reminds them that they are called on to be idealistic in their noble calling and thereby allow the Catholic liturgy to form them.
Friday, July 1, 2022Michele Goodwin on Abortion (REVIEW ESSAY) In response to the Supreme Court's disturbing Dobbs ruling, overturning the 1973 Supreme Court's Roe ruling and the constitutional right to abortion, I posted my OEN article "Samuel Alito on Abortion" On the same day, the prolific law-school professor Michele Goodwin published her cogent rejoinder to the Dobbs ruling, "No, Justice Alito, Reproductive Justice Is in the Constitution," in the New York Times.
Sunday, June 26, 2022Samuel Alito on Abortion (REVIEW ESSAY) President Harry Truman dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima to give the Allied Forces victory in World War II. Figuratively speaking, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito dropped nuclear bombs on the American people in May and June 2022 to give the anti-abortion forces in the United States victory in their campaign to overturn the 1973 Roe ruling. But can Democrats now galvanize voters in the 2022 mid-term elections?
Sunday, June 19, 2022Markus Friedrich on Jesuit History (BOOK REVIEW) The German historian Markus Friedrich (born in 1974) of the University of Hamburg incisively surveys Jesuit history in his new 2022 book in English translation, The Jesuits: A History, translated by John Noel Dillon (Princeton University Press; orig. German ed., 2016). It is a well-informed, well-documented, fast-paced, and readable book.
Wednesday, June 1, 2022Thomas Piketty on Equality in the Modern World (REVIEW ESSAY) The French economist Thomas Piketty (born in 1971) sky-rocketed to extraordinary prominence in the English-speaking world in 2014 with the publication in English of his 700-page densely packed book Capital in the Twenty-First Century (orig. French ed., 2013). Piketty's new 2022 book A Brief History of Equality (orig. French ed., 2021) is more reader-friendly, and, by comparison, far more accessible.
Thursday, May 19, 2022Daniel Bergner on Hearing Voices (REVIEW ESSAY) The American journalist Daniel Bergner published a somewhat lengthy eye-opening article in the New York Times titled "Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices" (dated May 17, 2022). It is based on his new 2022 book The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches (Ecco).
Monday, May 9, 2022Getting Our Cultural Bearings from Walter J. Ong (REVIEW ESSAY) I urge college-educated Americans today to get their cultural bearings from the American Jesuit cultural historian and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).
Saturday, April 23, 2022Eric McLuhan on Menippean Satire (REVIEW ESSAY) The late American-born James Joyce specialist and media ecology theorist Dr. Eric McLuhan (1942-2018; Ph.D. in English, University of Dallas, 1984) published two noteworthy books about Menippean satire: (1) The Role of Thunder in [Joyce's] Finnegans Wake (University of Toronto Press, 1997) and (2) Cynic Satire (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015). I discuss them in the context of the work of Walter J. Ong and Marshall McLuhan.
Friday, April 8, 2022Fran O'Rourke on James Joyce (REVIEW ESSAY) The Irish philosopher Fran O'Rourke has just published the massively learned and massively researched new 2022 book Joyce, Aristotle, and Aquinas (University Press of Florida). In it, Fran O'Rourke writes with admirable lucidity -- so it is accessible for the first-time reader of James Joyce's experimental novel Ulysses and for Joyce specialists. Fran O'Rourke is professor emeritus in philosophy at University College Dublin.
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