complied by Ivan Gaetz, former Library Director, Regent College.  

English language publications only
Each category arranged chronologically, most recent to earliest

Monographs (sole author)

Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century:  Ideas from the Past that Can Improve Our Future.  New York: Knopf, 1999.

The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School.  New York, Knopf, 1995

The Disappearance of Childhood:  Redefining the Value of School.  New York: Vintage Books, 1994,
c.1982.

Technopoly:  the Surrender of Culture to Technology.  New York: Vintage Books, 1993

Conscientious Objection:  Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology and Education.  New York:
Vintage Books, 1992, c.1988.

Amusing Ourselves to Death:  Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.  New York: Penguin, 1985

Teaching as a Conserving Activity.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1979.

Crazy Talk, Stupid Talk:  How We Defeat Ourselves by the Way We Talk and What to Do about It.  New
York: Delacorte Press, 1976.

Teaching as a Subversive Activity.  New York: Delta Book Publishing, 1971, c.1969.

Languages of Discovery.  New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1967.

The Uses of Language.  New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1967.

Exploring Your Language.  New York:  Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1966.

Linguistics: a Revolution in Teaching.  New York: Delta Book Publishing, 1966.

The New English: a Forward Look.  New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1965.

Discovering Your Language.  New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1963.

Television and the Teaching of English.  New York: Appleton Centruy Croft, 1961.

Monographs (joint authorship)

with Donald N. Wood.  Post-Intellectualism and the Decline of Democracy:  the Failure of Reason and
Responsibility in the Twentieth Century.  Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1996.

with Steve Powers.  How to Watch TV News.  New York: Penguin, 1992.

et al.  Myths, Men and Beer:  an Analysis of Beer Commercials on Broadcast Television, 1987.  Church
Falls, VA.:  Foundation for Traffic Safety, 1987.

with Charles Weingartner.  The School Book: for People Who Want to Know What all the Hollering Is
About.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1973.

with Charles Weingartner.  How to Recognize a Good School.  Bloomington: Phi Delta Kappa Educational
Foundation, 1973.

with  Charles Weingartner.  The Soft Revolution:  a Student Handbook for Turning Schools Around.  New
York: Delacorte Press, 1971.

with Charles Weingartner.  Teaching as a Subversive Activity.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1979, c. 1969.

with Charles Weingartner.  Linguistics:  a Revolution in Teaching.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1966.

with Howard C. Damon.  The Language of Discovery.  New York:  Delacotre Press, 1965.

with Howard C. Damon.  Language and System.  New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1965.

et al.  Television and the Teaching of English.  New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1961.

 

Monographs (volumes edited by Neil Postman)
 

Language in America: a Report on Our Deteriorating Semantic Environment.  New York: Pegasus, 1969.

The Roots of Fanaticism.  Ed. with Howard C. Damon.  New York: Holt Reinhart and Winston, 1965.
 
 

Articles

“Science and the Story that We Need.   First Things.  No. 69 (1997), 29-32.

“Making a Living, Making a Life: Technology Reconsidered.”  College Board Review.  No. 176-177
(1995), 8-13.

“Virtual Students, Digital Classroom.”  The Nation. No. 261 (1995), 377-378ff.

“The American Experiment”  Education Week, Vol. 15 (1995), 56.

“Error of Our Ways.”  Teacher Magazine.  Vol. 6 (1995), 32-37.

“Technology as Dazzling Distraction.”  The Education Digest.  Vol. 59 (1994), 25-28.

“Deus Machina”  Technos.  Vol. 1 (1992), 16-18.

with Camille Paglia.  “She Wants Her TV! He Wants His Book!”  Harper’s Vol. 282 (1991),
44-51, 54-55.

“What is a Conservative? (And Why Reagan Is Not One).”  Utne Reader (Mar/Ap, 1989), 75.

“Learning by Story.”  The Atlantic.  No. 264 (1989) 119-124.

“The Educationist as Painkiller.”  English Education.  (1988), 7-17.

“The Blurring of Childhood and the Media.”  Religious Education, Vol. 82 (1987) 293-295.

“The Limits of Language.”  Etc.  Vol. 43 (1986), 227-235.

“TV News as Vaudeville.”  The Quill.  Vol. 74 (1986), 18-23.

“Media and Technology as Educators.”  Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education.
(1985), 183-200.

“Social Science as Theology.”  Etc.  Vol. 41 (1984), 22-32.

“The Day Our Children Disappear: Predictions of a Media Ecologist.”  Phi Delta Kappa.  Vol. 62 (1981),
382-386.

“Fine Tuning the Balance Between Education and Media Culture.”  Teacher.  Vol. 98 (1980), 28-30.

“Language Education in a Knowledge Context.”  Etc.  Vol. 37 (1980), 25-37.

“Landmarks in the Literature: the Limits of Language.”  New York University Education Quarterly.  Vol.
11 (1979), 29-32.

“The Ascent of Humanity: a Coherent Curriculum.”  Educational Leadership.  Vol. 37 (1980), 300-303

“Order in the Classroom!”  Atlantic.  Vol. 244 (1979) 35-38.

“The First Curriculum.”  Phi Delta Kappa.  Vol. 61 (1979), 163-168.

“The Information Environment.”  Etc.  Vol. 36 (1979), 234-245.

“Landmarks in Literature: Where Have All the Critics Gone?”  New York University Education Quarterly.
Vol. 9 (1977), 28-31.

“What an Educator Means When He Says…”  Journal of the International Association of Pupil Personnel
Workers.  Vol. 20 (1976), 153-156.

“Whatever I Call It, It Is.”  Etc.  Vol. 31 (1974), 37-44.

with Charles Weingartner.  “Two Tests to Take - to Find Out if Yours Is a Great School.”  American
School Board Journal.  Vol. 161 (1974), 23-26.

“Media Ecology: a Growing Perspective.”  Media Ecology Review.  Vol. 3 (1973), 10-11.

“Illich, Pro and Con.”  Social Policy.  Vol. 2 (1971), 33-42.

“The New Literacy”  Grade Teacher.   Vol. 88 (1971), 2-52.

“The Politics of Reading.”  Harvard Educational Review.  Vol. 40 (1970), 244-252.