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Oct 12, 2026
Jasmine WallisHOST
Impact, which is a Gen Z media company, they put out a post called Alex Earl Saying She's Never Read a Book, Ever, Is a Sign of a Post-Literate Society.
Maggie ZhouHOST
Yeah, and in that carousel, they reference a piece written in The Atlantic called The End of Reading Is Here, and the journalist Rose Horowitch found that in the US people who read a book or an article on a typical day have decreased by about 40% in the last two decades.
Jasmine WallisHOST
Mm.
Maggie ZhouHOST
I think we don't even sometimes need stats like that to kind of know the general direction [laughs] that society is reading in.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Steve Maguire: Harvard faculty recognize that grade inflation has become absurd.
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Rose Horowitch: During their final meeting of the spring 2024 semester, after an academic year marked by controversies, infighting, and the defenestration of the university president, Harvard's faculty burst out laughing.
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As was tradition, the then dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, had been providing updates on the graduating class.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
When he got to GPA, Khurana couldn't help but chuckle at how ludicrously high it was, about three point eight on average.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Steve Maguire: Harvard faculty recognize that grade inflation has become absurd.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
Rose Horowitch: During their final meeting of the spring 2024 semester, after an academic year marked by controversies, infighting, and the defenestration of the university president, Harvard's faculty burst out laughing.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
As was tradition, the then dean of Harvard College, Rakesh Khurana, had been providing updates on the graduating class.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
When he got to GPA, Khurana couldn't help but chuckle at how ludicrously high it was, about three point eight on average.
David StaleyNARRATOR
All of these forces have left students without the cognitive endurance to wrestle with complex texts.
David StaleyNARRATOR
In July twenty twenty-six, Rose Horowitch announced in an Atlantic article that the end of reading is here, that the United States is entering a post-literate age.
David StaleyNARRATOR
Americans do not lack for reading skills.
David StaleyNARRATOR
Instead, they choose not to read.
David StaleyNARRATOR
But unlike primary oral societies, Homer's society, for example, which were memory-driven and had not developed the tools of literacy The architecture of secondary orality is built on a literate foundation.
David StaleyNARRATOR
The critic Neil Postman in the 1980s described the cognitive effects of television on our culture using the term aliteracy to define our condition.
David StaleyNARRATOR
Aliteracy sounds very much like what Rose Horowitch is describing.
David StaleyNARRATOR
It means having the ability to read and write, but choosing not to.