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The Reading Crisis in the "Postliterate" Age
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July 24, 2026
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1:40Now PlayingWhen humans first began to read, about 6,000 years ago, it changed society—“I think that we’re living through a civilization shift on that scale,” Rose Horowitch argues. She speaks with Hanna Rosin about the “postliterate” crisis Americans now face:
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