Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey
Book Reviews Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey Today's anxieties about digital culture are prefigured in the long and wobbly history of books. Adolf Hitler wasn't interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies.
- ▪Book Reviews Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey Today's anxieties about digital culture are prefigured in the long and wobbly history of books.
- ▪Adolf Hitler wasn't interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him.
- ▪Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies.
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Book Reviews Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey Today's anxieties about digital culture are prefigured in the long and wobbly history of books. Joel Miller | 6.9.2026 7:30 AM Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google Media Contact & Reprint Requests <img src="https://d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net/img/c800x450-w800-q80/uploads/2026/06/halldorf-800x450.png" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto" width="1200" height="675" alt="halldorf | NYU Press" /> (NYU Press) Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age, by Joel Halldorf, New York University Press, 312 pages, $35 For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there's a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf.
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