Ew, are we post-literate?

唉,我们是不是已经进入了后文字时代?

Today, Explained

2026-05-23

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In this episode from last year, we explain how a return to orality is frying our politics and our brains. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers and Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Denise Guerra, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Did you hear Wednesday's episode of Today Explained from Vox?

  • We called it Everything is Clips Now because when you open up your social media and start scrolling,

  • you've probably noticed that everything is clips.

  • Clips of podcasts, clips of TV shows, clips of movies, clips of sports.

  • Our guest called it the TLDRification of the entire internet.

  • Because it kind of truncates.

  • Everything we make and it all goes down to we need a way for people to discover our content

  • and right now the way to get people to discover the content is to make clips of it no matter

  • what it is One of the things we're not doing when we're watching all those clips is reading.

  • We made a show about that too.

  • But we also, also, also made a show about what not reading is doing to our brains, our politics,

  • and our potential to connect with each other now and in the future.

  • And we're going to bring you that show once again today.

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