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We sense this disequilibrium in the cultural prominence of 24-hour cable news, streaming television and podcasts, an expansion of what in 1982 the cultural historian Walter J. Ong dubbed the age of “secondary orality.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Waldie, essayist and cultural historian, is the author of “Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place,” among other books.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

Maurie McInnis, a longtime higher education leader and cultural historian, was named the 24th president of Yale University on Wednesday, becoming the first woman to be appointed permanently to the position.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2024

"Doctor Who was in very strong danger of being cancelled just weeks after it started," recalled cultural historian Alwyn Turner.

From BBC • Nov. 19, 2023

Both poems are of interest to the political and cultural historian, but from a literary point of view The Man of Taste is probably the better poem.

From The Man of Taste by Bramston, James