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The shrinking, post-human vocabulary of our tone-deaf culture

September 20, 2022 Jason M. Baxter 14

I’ve become interested over the past couple of years in my students’ shrinking vocabularies. It’s just anecdotal, but I fancy that I’ve seen an incredible and radical shrinking up of my students’ words. When I […]

C.S. Lewis vs. Roy Lichtenstein: On why the great books bore us

September 8, 2022 Jason M. Baxter 6

Strange as it may sound, C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) hated cars. And newspapers. And zippers. Really. What are for most of us the banal and indispensable necessities of daily life, were, for Lewis, icons of modernity. […]

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The shrinking, post-human vocabulary of our tone-deaf culture

C.S. Lewis vs. Roy Lichtenstein: On why the great books bore us

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