James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the recent article by Rose Horowitch of The Atlantic entitled “The End of Reading is Here,” including how widespread reading shaped and sharpened minds of people, and of society as a result, over the past few hundred years, why people today are reading for information or entertainment so much less, and how societies may fundamentally change as people read less and less over time.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618/
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