With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, 23 essayists-including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser-examine aspects of our pan-cultural "dumbing down" and offer diagnoses of a possible cures for this wasting disease | Dumbing Down by Katherine Washburn, Paperback | Indigo Chapters