Farrell, Thomas2022-06-012022-06-012022-06This version was not previously published.https://hdl.handle.net/11299/227779See the above abstract.In my 1,900-word review essay "Thomas Piketty's 2022 Book A Brief History of Equality, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I interweave highlights from Thomas Piketty's A Brief History of Equality, translated by Steven Rendall (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022; orig. French ed., 2021) with selected points from the work of the American Jesuit cultural historian and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), with passing references to certain other works by other authors.enThomas Piketty, Walter J. Ong, Thomas J. FarrellScholarly Text or Essay