The Reader’s Manifesto

Reading across a genres, subjects, and perspectives has the power to pop the filter bubbles that many of us increasingly find ourselves in, both online and off. It’s how we develop a healthy intellectual humility, where no single ideology or belief system monopolises truth.

Sit down with a book, magazine, or long-form article, block out distractions, and dedicate our minds to better ideas.

It’s an act of rebellious empathy.

what we desperately need is to rediscover the lost art of deep reading — the type of engaged, focused reading that challenges us with complex ideas, transports us into others’ experiences and perspectives and demands our full intellectual engagement and concentration.

How do we pull ourselves out of the partisan morass, rediscover our ability to think for ourselves and find common ground with those we may disagree with?

The answer: we read.