Reading Is Not Dying Reports of a literacy crisis misunderstand the way we read today. I like that this article clarifies that there is or could be a problem, but the book it's responding to does a poor job of describing the issue. Because confronting and countering a problem is easier if you know what the problem is. You can solve things by randomly throwing solutions at it, like how we used to do medicine when we believed in the humours - sometimes we randomly got it right! We usually don't, though.