The Next Conservatism #27: A Post-literate Culture

http://www.freecongress.org/commentaries/2006/060123.asp

[Free Congress Foundation] January 23, 2006--For years, conservatives have warned that America's children are not learning to read, and indeed are not reading: the classics of Western literature are now largely unknown to them. The next conservatism will have to confront the results of this dual functional and cultural illiteracy. Specifically, it will have to face the fact that American culture is increasingly post-literate.