Dr. Amy Carleton

Forget the “Dead Poets Society,” apparently we are now living in a “post-literate society.”

Depending on which survey you trust, somewhere between a quarter and half of American adults didn’t read a single book last year.

What happens to a culture when reading stops being how we learn, think, argue, and make sense of things? (Spoiler: nothing good!)

Here are the two essays I mention in this video:
1. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-the-post-literate-society-aa1
2. www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/2026/07/atlantics-august-cover-the-age-of-reading-is-over/687836/?gift=P28Fmm_-NNO21sYTWfSw_MpcHsClbbEaIGJzajcX-Qk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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