Is it any wonder we suffer from culturally enforced attention deficit disorder when books no longer seize the imagination unless they’re packaged as entertainment, preferably with a minimum of text and plenty of flashy graphics?

“I cannot live without books,” Thomas Jefferson wrote nearly 200 years ago. He had nothing to worry about. We, I fear, certainly do.

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Dr. Phyllis Chesler is a professor emerita of psychology, a Middle East Forum fellow, and the author of sixteen books including “The New Anti-Semitism” (2003, 2014), “Living History: On the Front Lines for Israel and the Jews, 2003-2015 (2015), and “An American Bride in Kabul” (2013), for which she won the National Jewish Book Award in the category of memoirs. Her articles are archived at www.phyllis-chesler.com. A version of this piece appeared on IsraelNationalNews.com.