Neil Postman, a prolific and influential social critic and educator best known for his warning that an era of mass communications is stunting the minds of children as well as adults died Sunday at a ...

On my short list of Books All Educators Should Read is a slim volume by Neil Postman called “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.” Published in 1985, the book ...

I have no count, but I sense a dwindling number of people in the academic world who are unclassifiable. Neil Postman, who died Sunday, was one, and now we can say he will always be one. Such figures — ...

I owe my job — and much else — to Neil Postman, the pioneering communications scholar who hired me nearly two decades ago. And I’ve been thinking a lot about Neil over the past few weeks, as we near ...

In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility ...

Claiming that NBC Nightly News or 60 Minutes are more damaging to the public good than The Bachelor or Duck Dynasty might be a tough sell on the surface. But as we hurdle towards President-elect ...

Neil Postman, an influential social critic and educator best known for his warning that an era of mass communications is stunting the minds of people, especially children, has died. He was 72. He died ...

In Italy, as the lowbrow network Mediaset spread across the country, watching more of its “vapid programming was followed by an enduring boost in support for populist candidates peddling simple ...