adapted for young people by warren st. john. >> right. warren st. hn, "the new york times" writer. he adapted it for young people, he took 100 pages out of it, so so this is the shorter or version suitable for college students. [laughter] but the title rather nicely captures the spirit of this whole enterprise. the outcast united, the students are taught to think of themselves as outcasts, they're united in coming together in this oppositional enterprise in which they're going to generate a new, more wholesome culture, and that's one main reason why books, not just classics in the classical sense, but books written before they were born are so few. 91% of the books assigned in common reading programs around the country this year were written after these children were born. 91%. so it's as though the written word hardly existed before they did. there are a few sort of hints that there might have been something written down in english earlier, but you have to go to some pretty faraway colleges in southern utah and places like that to find them. i would

. >> adapted for young people by warren st. john. >> this is the shorter version. >> the title rather nicely catches the spirit of this whole enterprise. the act outcast united, the students are taught to think of themselves as outcasts and their united and coming together where they can generate a new more wholesome culture and that's one main reason why lots of classics in the classical sense of books are so cute. 91% of the books assigned in programs around the country were written after these children were born. 91%. so it's as though the written word hardly existed before they did. there are a few sort of hints that there might've been something written down in english earlier, but you have to go to some pretty far away colleges in southern utah and places like that to find them. i would say there's a major exception right here in new york city. columbia university is implement in common reading this year. it's not a story of uniform disgrace everywhere. it's a story in which, what are we up to, 350 colleges this year, the grea

>> adapted for young people by warren st. john. >> he put 100 pages out of it, the shorter version is suitable. >> the spirit of this whole enterprise, and they are united in coming together in opposition enterprise in which they generate a new more wholesome culture and that is one reason books, not just classics in the classical sense but books written before they were born were so huge. 91% of the books signed in common reading programs around the country this year, after these children were born, 91%. it is as though the written word hardly existed before they did. hints that there might have been something written in english earlier but you have to go to some faraway colleges in utah and places like that, there is a major exception in new york city, this is not a story, uniform disgrace everywhere, 250 colleges this year find them, they have taken an easy path into a world in which the books they assign are not challenging, the content of them is overtly political. there is a quality of intellectual squalor that has overtaken