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Print Isn’t Dying—Critical Thinking is the one on life support.

A culture that cannot read an argument will soon be governed by those who cannot make one.

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Jul 05, 2026
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There is a certain intellectual laziness in the now-familiar lament that “print is dying,” as though the decline of ink on paper were the central cultural drama of our time. It is not. Paper is merely a delivery mechanism. If anything, the technological conditions for serious reading have never been more favourable. High-resolution screens, instantaneou…

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