There Is No Problem Government Creates That It Can’t Make Worse Trump’s Tacky Coin Do Big Firms’ Environmentalist Ties Collide with Their Energy Clients’ Interests? The Need for Electricity Abundance ...

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, ...

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 ...

Mixing provocative insights and cliched criticisms, Postman defines the U.S. as a society in which technology is deified to a near-totalitarian degree. (Apr.) Claiming that our current educational ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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.