One of my favorite YouTube videos is a clip from a Canadian television show in 1968 featuring a debate between Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan. The two men, both heroes of the ’60s, could hardly be ...

Google’s Doodle have a fondness for celebrating legendary figures, but today’s person of interest feels more appropriate for the venue than most. The company hails Canadian professor, philosopher, and ...

Long before the digital age, Marshall McLuhan warned about shifting civic priorities among young people. His observation on ...

Your Vox Membership goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership, we’ll give one to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you to support Vox’s journalism and ...

How big was Marshall McLuhan in the late 1960s? The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed the University of Toronto professor “the hottest academic property around,” and the line “Marshall McLuhan, whatcha ...

Nick Ripatrazone’s new book on Marshall McLuhan, Digital Communion, arrived in my mailbox the day I presented a play about Marshall McLuhan at a conference on the Catholic imagination in Dallas, Tex.

If the medium is the message, what does pandemic-era video conferencing tell us? In the 1999 film, Up In the Air, George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a consultant whose job is to fly around the country ...

1911: Media theorist Marshall McLuhan escapes the medium of the womb to become a founding messenger of the electronic future. His scholarly analyses like The Mechanical Bride, The Gutenberg Galaxy, ...

“I knew going into it that this wasn’t going to be a straight biography,” says Douglas Coupland about his new study of Marshall McLuhan. What the Vancouver-based author has concocted instead is a ...

Marshall McLuhan, who, as just about everybody-ought to know by now, is the Canadian agricultural expert and author of “The Romance of Wheat”— No. I am mistaken. Marshall McLuhan, who, as just about ...

He coined the oxymoron "the global village" and predicted the impact of the Internet on society. Media guru Marshall McLuhan would've turned 100 this year; Berlin reviews his influence on European art ...