Just read a wonderful article on the continued value and importance of reading. By Victor Davis Hanson, of the Hoover Institute.
A sample:
"We don’t need more technocrats who fool us that their Ivy League law
degrees are synonymous with wisdom. They can be, but now are more likely
not much more than tickets that allow an Eric Holder or Timothy
Geithner into the first-class seating. I am not calling for us to be
academics or scholastics with our noses in books or our heads up our
posteriors; but to match physicality and pragmatism with occasional
abstraction and reflection from the voices of the past — just a little,
now and then, to remind us that Twitter or Facebook speed up
communication, but can slow down thought."
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