Farrell, Thomas2024-06-152024-06-152024This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/263936See the above abstract.In my wide-ranging 2,100-word review essay "Thomas B. Edsall's June 12, 2024 Op-Ed Column on the Convicted Felon Trump, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight Edsall's column titled "Trump Would Be Gone if Only We Could . . . ," on the one hand, and, on the other, 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).en-USThomas B. Edsall, Walter J. OngScholarly Text or Essay