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Why Trump is our first 'POST-LITERATE' president: The Atlantic
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Staff writer at The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch, argues that we are living in a “postliterate world” where fewer and fewer adults read books of any kind, and she examines whether civilization can survive this era in her August cover story titled, “ “The Age of Reading Is Over.” In it, Horowitch writes that society seems to have lost the desire ‘to read book-length works, and with that are losing the higher-order abilities of comprehension and synthesis’ adding that Donald Trump is ‘representative’ of this era. Rose Horowitch joins Morning Joe to discuss the piece.
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