Reading James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages

A year ago James Marriott had a Substack post on “the dawn of the post-literate society” that as I write has over 21,000 likes and 6,000 restacks: clearly something that struck a chord. And now we have a book length treatment of the issue, though a short book – put your phone away and you can read it in an afternoon.
As someone who recently retired from over forty years of university teaching, my own sense is that there has been a genuine decline in the ability of college stud