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Colm O’Shea

Colm O'Shea teaches essay writing at New York University. He is the author of the sci-fi novel Claiming De Wayke (Crossroad Press) and the academic monograph James Joyce's Mandala (Routledge). Visit him at colmoshea.com. 

Articles by Colm O’Shea
C.S. Lewis (Wikimedia Commons)
Arts & CultureIdeas
A.I., C.S. Lewis and the dangers of artificial prophets
Colm O’Shea
There have always been false prophets, but now we have something else: artificial ones.
Arts & CultureFilm
How Pixar’s ‘Inside Out 2’ explains modern therapy culture
Colm O’Shea
Talented minds are implanting ideals in the inner landscapes of our young. We should be paying more attention.
A photo of Aldous Huxley and Thomas Merton
Arts & CultureIdeas
Why Thomas Merton was suspicious of psychedelic drugs
Colm O’Shea
Aldous Huxley convinced me to try psychedelic drugs. Thomas Merton gave me a healthy suspicion of them.
Timothée Chalamet stars as Willy Wonka in the movie “Wonka.”
Arts & CultureFilm
Timothée Chalamet is a milquetoast Christ in ‘Wonka’
Colm O’Shea
How did this Wonka, unfazed and insisting that salvation is at hand, become the jaded, suspicious entity we know he will become?