Farrell, Thomas2024-07-302024-07-302024This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/264443See the above abstract.In my 4,400-word review essay "Anne Applebaum's 2024 Book Autocracy, Inc., and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I first succinctly highlight Applebaum's new 2024 book Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World. Then, I explain at length the relevant thought of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong of Saint Louis University (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955).en-USAnne Applebaum, Walter J. OngScholarly Text or Essay