Zero-Narrative Nation
April, 2008
"WHO KILLS A MAN KILLS A REASONABLE CREATURE, GOD'S IMAGE, BUT HE WHO DESTROYS A GOOD BOOK KILLS REASON ITSELF."-JOHN MILTON, AREOPAGITICAThe United States today is not an illiterate nation. It is an increasingly aliterate nation, in which good books, magazines and newspapers are being killed not by censors but by an indifferent public. This crucial distinction is lost on those who see enforced improvement of performance on standardized tests as the utilitarian remedy for what is reall...
