Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Why should a teenager bother to read a book, when there are so many other demands on their time? In this episode of Radio Atlantic: a dispatch […]
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” which sparked a lot of debate. Professors told Horowitch that their students
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts There are two very different stories out there about what happened on January 6. One is the truth, laid down by then-Representative Liz Cheney and others on
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Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts How do you know when a democracy slips into autocracy or fascism or some other less-free and less-savory form of society? Do they hang out a sign?
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