[Article] The higher illiteracy Adjust Share By Gene Lyons, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Education, Higher English language Literacy Study and teaching (Higher) United States More from Gene Lyons The apocalypse will be televised Armageddon in an age of entertainment The media is the message Notes on our decadent press To make a cow laugh A bad book about the phony Whitewater scandal Adjust Share Close < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > September 1976 < Previous Issue | View All Issues | Next Issue > Table of Contents Close