Dumbing Down: Essays on the Strip-Mining of American Culture (PB) (1997)

With vigor, wit, learning, common sense, and urgency, twenty-three essayist--including John Simon, Cynthia Ozick, Phillip Lopate, George F. Kennan, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Epstein, and Brad Leithauser--examine aspects of our pan-cultural dumbing down and offer both diagnoses of and possible cures for this wasting disease.