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Noah McCormack from The Baffler: "We used to read things in this country"

Dec 8, 2025

“Technology is changing us for the worse,” Noah McCormack writes in The Baffler, the online magazine where he works as publisher. As social media returns us to an oral culture, our ability to read, and comprehend what we read, is declining.

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• We Used to Read Things in This Country (by Noah McCormack in The Baffler, October 2025)

• Noah McCormack is the publisher of The Baffler and coeditor, with Scott Sowerby, of The Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall from 1633 to 1688.

• The Memoirs of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall 1633-1688 (Noah McCormack, Scott Sowerby, editors)
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