"A Dissenting Voice in a Swirl of Enthusiasm for Pop Culture, Electronic Media, and New Technology in General"

"Postman was politically liberal in most ways but by today's standards, something like a cultural conservative: He wanted a common culture, was suspicious of much of popular culture, opposed multiculturalism--at its worst, he wrote, 'a psychopathic version of cultural pluralism'--and found the assault on 'dead white European males' silly. He returned repeatedly in his work to the importance of schooling and to an un-commodified childhood, in books like 'Teaching as a Subversive Activity' and 'The End of Education.'"


Scott Timberg in Salon looks back to Neil Postman.