# Are we now in a post-literacy world?

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Podcast: [The Radio National Hour](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-radio-national-hour-7176627)
Published: 2026-07-14T08:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-radio-national-hour/the-radio-national-hour/106838976
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The US has vowed to dismantle the International Criminal Court, declaring it a rogue force that threatens every aspect of America’s political and legal systems. Former ICC special advisor and UTas Professor of law Tim McCormack says the Trump administration is completely misrepresenting the way the court operates. Australia sends more than 27 million tonnes of construction and demolition waste to landfill every year. Architect Alex Symes believes that has to change — and he's turning a 120 year old terrace into a working demonstration of how renovation can be done with less waste, fewer new materials and a smaller environmental footprint. Its dramatic. We’ll take a visit to his house to find out just what that looks like. The end of reading is here; that’s the stark claim in a new essay published by The Atlantic charting the decline in reading and comprehension and the profound impact it's already having on our brains, even the bestsellers have shorter sentences than they did 50 years ago.

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