Literacy, Common Culture, And The Battle Against Wokeness

Plus Mandates, Groupthink, Masks, Michelin, Sex and the City

Joel Kotkin. “As the retreat from our Western heritage and the collapse of literacy continues, we are reprising the cultural behaviours of the Middle Ages. As late as the mid-15th century, literacy rates in Europe were quite low – five per cent overall in England, though substantially higher in cities and in the more urbanised societies of the Netherla…