Why Read? by Mark Edmundson
This short polemic defends serious reading as a vital, countercultural practice that cultivates attention, moral seriousness, and imaginative freedom; arguing against the instrumental, therapeutic, and market-driven uses of education and culture, it shows how close engagement with great literature awakens individuality, resilience, and empathy, and calls on teachers and readers to preserve reading’s capacity to confront complacency and shape a richer inner life.
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