“Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep people ignorant of the past and to concentrate their minds on the utopia that lies ahead.” — The Economist Copy Share Image
“Books educate people and educated people ask awkward questions of those who govern them. The educated, in short, are considered ungovernable. Better to keep… — The Economist Copy Share Image
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an… — The Economist Copy Share Image
“But that is the strange thing about the future. Nothing ages faster than yesterday’s dreams of tomorrow.” — The Economist Copy Share Image
“An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire… — The Economist Copy Share Image
“IN THE room of Mashal Khan, a student at Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, a dusty town in north-west Pakistan, the late occupant’s… — The Economist Copy Share Image
“For now, tribal instincts backed by institutional machinery, still prop up the old split'.” — The Economist Copy Share Image