I was a skeptic when Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business came out in 1985. A book attacking the frivolity of television seemed, well, frivolous, ...

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Neil Postman, who died Sunday (Oct. 5, 2003) of cancer in Queens, was a social critic and media scholar who would have appreciated and understood the irony of Arnold Schwarzenegger's election. The ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. Somehow, Neil Postman saw it coming.

"It" being: everything. Our current mess. The low information, disinformation, gullibility and hysteria that are breaking out like measles during Election 2024. Who was the prophet — if only we had ...