[drewda]

From the same magazine that also recently published a piece headlined "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books"

I do have a print subscription to The Atlantic and appreciate some of their coverage, but it's embarrassing how much they're always on the lookout for upper-middle-class panics to milk...

[philipallstar]

This isn't valid criticism. Treat the article as just its own thing, regardless of who published it.

[drewda]

Here's another recent example:

‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’: What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?

(The Atlantic, Nov. 2025)