Today is Father's Day 2021. So today I will celebrate the thought of the American Jesuit Father Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955). Figuratively speaking, Father Ong was a father figure to me in my adult life. In the process of celebrating his thought, I will indicate how I use his thought about print culture in Western culture to interpret vociferous contemporary American conservatives today