Morning Glory: Put down your phone, damn it
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Christine Rosen is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for Commentary and a frequent contributor to the magazine’s podcast, and a fellow at Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Rosen is also the author of “The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World,” a book that has changed my life.
Every book changes every reader’s life for, at a minimum, reading any book consumes time you cannot get back. But some books have far-reaching impacts. I chanced, for example, upon “One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich” among my oldest brother’s books when, long ago, he came home for the summer after his freshman year in college. That short, riveting novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn had quite an impact on me. Until reading it, I