G.K. Chesterton on the Death of Literacy

Uncommon Sense by Society of GK Chesterton

Jul 28, 202634:02Arts

A new Atlantic cover story argues that America is sliding into a postliterate age—but G.K. Chesterton diagnosed the same collapse in 1928, years before Marshall McLuhan or Neil Postman raised the alarm. Joe Grabowski goe...

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