Ushering In the New Age of Quiet, One Conservative's View

Wall Street Journal opinions columnist Peggy Noonan figures that Americans will be doing a lot more reading in the near future, with Kindle, the rediscovery of libraries and Amazon (which actually did quite well this year, if this story’s any indication. Anyhow, the former Reagan speechwriter contends that with more Americans at home, out of work, they will be searching for answers not online but the old-fashioned way, fingering the paper pages of a hardbound book.