Reading Good Literature Can Help Restore America's Civic Virtue

Reading Good Literature Can Help Restore America’s Civic Virtue

Americans don’t read literature much any more. I sense, perhaps, a collective shrug from many — who cares if Americans don’t read fiction? Those who favor republican government should care. Reading is a marker of the relative health of a democratic society.

Reading Good Literature Can Help Restore America's Civic Virtue

Americans don’t read literature much anymore - and that's a problem. Reading is a marker of the relative health of a democratic society.