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Rose Horowitch and the Obsession with Belief over Empiricism

The Atlantic has been referred to as "the worst magazine in America," and after reading Rose Horwitch's dishonest—and dangerous—piece, "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books," I have to say that Current Affairs went easy on them. It's been a while since there's been a full-on screed here at Three Percent, ...

A Venn Diagram of Not Reading

“If I actually finish a book, I feel like I deserve a Nobel Prize.” “I can't even guess when I last read a book. But I'd watch movies all day if I could. Especially Marvel ones.” Overheard on a University of Rochester Shuttle “In the last decade, she says, history has toppled from the king of disciplines to a ...

Germans keep reading

It sounds like the Germans are still