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C-SPAN has agreements with retailers that share a small percentage of your purchase price with our network. “Populism of the illiberal nationalist kind is,” Garfinkle believes, “what happens in a mass-electoral democracy when a decisive percentage of mobilized voters drops below a deep-literacy standard.”Garfinkle’s essay — mental calisthenics for a confined nation — deserves at least the grudging gratitude of even the most egalitarian Americans.
I love to read and then criticize George Will. And he should stop pretending he is. In any case, I doubt many people really take George Will seriously or even read him. He reports that high school guidance counselors say most students lack the social skills to speak one-on-one with college admissions personnel. The vinegary Lionel Shriver has a bracingly bleak, which i Yet even among young people in higher education, many professors will not assign entire books, or substantial portions of challenging ones.Deep readers can “deploy shields of skepticism” against those who, lacking the reading habit, are “locked in perpetual intellectual adolescence.” And then? Garfinkle worries that “cognitively sped-up and multitasking young brains may not acquire sufficient capacities for critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy, and hence will become easy prey for charlatans and demagogues.”Modernity’s greatest blessing — individualism: the celebration of individual agency — depends on a sense of one’s interior, of Integral to liberal-democratic politics are, Garfinkle says, abstract ideas — “representation; the virtues of doubt, dissent, and humility; and the concept of a depersonalized constitutional order.” A society that loses the ballast of deep literacy is apt to become less thoughtful, more emotional and volatile. Garfinkle, founding editor of the American Interest, elaborates on Maryanne Wolf’s idea of “deep literacy” from her 2018 book “Few scientists doubt that heavy dependency on electronic screens has shortened attention spans. Those are pretty vital to democratic culture. The aim of the week is to promote leisure reading … Published online December 2, 2018. Deep reading, like deep writing, is difficult, hence unnatural. Club News 16 Royals receive call-ups for international duty 25 February 2020. recent articles. Garfinkle says, “We are or become, cognitively speaking, what we do with language.” Printed words, presented sequentially in sentences and paragraphs, are demanding, but rewarding: Only they can present the reasoning required to establish complicated truths.Garfinkle’s surmise is that government’s problem-solving failures reflect not just hyper-partisanship and polarization but also the thin thinking of a political class of non-deep readers who are comfortable only with the shallowness of tweets.