All the Words Fit to Print

The scholar and researcher Stanley Kurtz once opined that one can really be a great reader in only one of three categories: books; journals and newspapers; or the internet. I’m not sure if it’s true, though it probably is. It may well be that Mr. Kurtz’s notion of being a great reader is itself dependent on another distinction said to originate with the ancient Greek poet Archilochus and riffed on by the twentieth-century philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin in a famous essay.