I love this framing, especially the idea that the “solve” has to be domestic and relational before it is institutional. What strikes me is that reading isn’t just a habit to be modeled, but a way of being in the world that children absorb by proximity: slowness, attention, tolerance for difficulty, and pleasure in lingering with something you don’t immediately master.

I also find your point about social reading really compelling. What feels new on Substack isn’t just that people read together, but that they read in public while still thinking privately. It creates a shared intellectual atmosphere without dissolving the solitude that serious reading requires. That tension between solitude and togetherness might be exactly where a quiet revival of deep reading can happen.