A few months ago, I invited Atlantic staff writer Charlie Worzel onto The David Frum Show.
As podcast hosts, we talked about the pressures and temptations of the medium.
Outrage often gets rewarded.
Nuance does not.
Charlie doesn't take that bait.
On his show Galaxy Brain, he covers the ways technology is changing how we think and how we live.
Not just the obvious stuff, but the subtle ways it shapes what we believe,
how we talk to each other, how we see ourselves and our neighbors.
If you've ever wondered how smart people end up believing implausible things online, Galaxy Brain is worth your time.
Thoughtful, surprising, and a little unsettling in the very best way.
Find it wherever you listen or watch.
We're going to have a conversation about the end of reading today.
This idea, proposed in the most recent Atlantic cover story, is that the age of reading
is turning out to be a short anomaly in human history and that we are fast entering a post-literate society.
But before we do that, I want you to think about the arc of your own relationship with books.
How did you read as a kid?
In school, when did that change?
Did you notice a change?
What's the last book that you read, absorbed, and enjoyed?
I'm Hannah Rosen.