Farrell, Thomas2024-04-032024-04-032024-04This version has not been published previously.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/262052See the above abstract.In my 2,900-word review essay "Fareed Zakaria's 2024 Book Age of Revolutions, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I succinctly highlight Zakaria's timely new 2024 book Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W. W. Norton). More importantly, I succinctly highlight the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) to describe and characterize the period that Zakaria discusses -- "from 1600 to the Present."enFareed Zakaria, Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. FarrellScholarly Text or Essay