An Insight

Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book.

Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts.

This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one.

To fight back, we started an online book… pic.twitter.com/qDV0fTCnDA

— Athenaeum Book Club (@athenaeumbc) June 14, 2026