Doomsayers warn about a post-lit society – here’s why they are wrong - IN FOCUS: Our concentration levels may be going down, but predictions of the death of the novel – and reading – are wide of the ...

Review of The Myth of America’s Decline: Politics, Economics and a Half Century of False Prophecies, by Josef Joffe (Liveright 2013), 352 pages, ISBN- 978-0871404497 Josef Joffe’s The Myth of ...

I’ve always wanted to write “Doomsayers” in a headline, but not for people like this. I guess I always pictured a “doomsayer” as some gigantic rock-skinned villain out of a comic book, not as some ...

Ah, the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth by local lefties. This condition is exemplified by Connie Haas Zuber’s op-ed of April 7, highlighted by the arrogant, pompous headline produced by the ...

The sky is falling in has always made good copy. At the dawn of the UK’s National Year of Reading, several voices of doom have begun to promote the “end of civilisation” with an ominous catalogue of ...