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Oct 15, 2017 · Politics. How American Politics Became So Exhausting. In a new book, the writer Alan Jacobs looks at why it’s impossible for people who disagree to hold a civilized conversation. By Emma Green....
Biography. Dr. Alan Jacobs is The Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He began teaching at Baylor in 2013 and is a Resident Fellow of Baylor’s Institute for the Studies of Religion.
So what? Alan Jacobs. In the 1950s and 1960s, a series of thinkers, beginning with Jacques Ellul and Marshall McLuhan, began to describe the anatomy of our technological society. Then, starting in the 1970s, a generation emerged who articulated a detailed critique of that society.
Oct 17, 2017 · In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and...
about Alan Jacobs. photo by Holly Fish. I am — take a deep breath — the Jim and Sharon Harrod Endowed Chair of Christian Thought and Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University. I’ve been at Baylor for ten years and before that taught for three decades at Wheaton College in Illinois.
Contributor. Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. His most recent book is Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (Penguin, 2020).
Sep 8, 2020 · Sept. 8, 2020. BREAKING BREAD WITH THE DEAD. A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind. By Alan Jacobs. Alan Jacobs calls his latest work a “self-help book.” That slightly self-mocking...
