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How Reading Made Us: 3. How Reading Made Our Politics

Mar 30, 202642:01Business

Learning to read permanently alters your brain. It changes the emotions you experience and the way you relate to others. When a society learns to read the consequences are dramatic: wars break out, revolutions erupt and...

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How Reading Made Us: 3. How Reading Made Our Politics is an episode from Understand: The Economy by BBC. Learning to read permanently alters your brain. It changes the emotions you experience and the way you relate to others. When a society...

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Published Mar 30, 2026, 42:01 long, audio available.

How Reading Made Us: 3. How Reading Made Our Politics

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