Introducing a New Saturday Series: The Prophets

McLuhan (Illustration by Pablo Declan for The Free Press; photo by Michel Laurent via Getty Images)
Meet the messengers from the past who saw the future and explain our world today. First up: Marshall McLuhan.
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Emily Yoffe, senior editor at The Free Press, here. Last year while scrolling on X, I came across a post that caught my attention. It was a short clip of an interview with Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher and English professor. I had vague memories of McLuhan—who died in 1980—as a semi-famous intellectual of his day. The young writer who posted …
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