Tag: Neil Postman

• Saint Benedict in Technopoly

  Perhaps it was because I had just finished reading Neil Postman’s 1992 book Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology when I started in on Rod Dreher’s latest, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, but I was detecting a subtle yet strong Postmanian vibe throughout the book. Then, when Dreher actually quoted Technopoly, I realized…

  Mar 30, 2017

  # America, books, education, Neil Postman, religion, review, Rod Dreher, synchronicity, technology, Technopoly, The Benedict Option

• Ten Books

  In the Filmspotting tradition of naming lists after what you know will be on everyone’s list so should be removed from consideration, I’m going to name this the To Kill A Mockingbird Memorial List of Ten Books That Have Stuck With Me For Some Reason. Acknowledging the usual disclaimers of making lists (it’s not binding, it could…

  Sep 7, 2014

  # A Night to Remember, books, Jesus, lists, Malcolm X, nature, Neil Postman, Philip Yancey, Sigurd Olson, Stephen Ambrose, The Road Less Traveled, The Things They Carried, Theodore Roosevelt, Titanic