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WSJ Opinion: The Outlook From and For Gen Z on America at 250

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., Free Expression columnist Meghan Cox Gurdon and editors Emma Camp and Mary Julia Koch discuss religion, patriotism and the advent of AI. Photo: WSJ Opinion Live

Omaha Town Hall Lecture Series: Meghan Cox Gurdon

Lecture Date: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026

Meghan Cox Gurdon is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression newsletter and a weekly contributor to the WSJ books pages. At the Journal, she writes about biographies, histories, audiobooks, fiction, technology and social science, with a lively eye to the quirks and delights of domestic life. She brings to her work a humane sensibility that is grounded in traditional respect for language…

Podcast: WSJ Children's Book Critic & Author, Meghan Cox Gurdon on Reading Aloud to Children in the Age of Distraction

July 17, 2020 By Editorial Staff

This week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard are joined by Meghan Cox Gurdon, the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer and author of The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction. Meghan shares what inspired her interest…

 

EP#6: Meghan Cox Gurdon: Reading Aloud | Dopamine Fixes | Technology vs. Paper Books

Dec 11, 2020

Impact in the 21st Century - a podcast by Simbi Foundation

Meghan Cox Gurdon is an author, essayist, book critic, and former foreign correspondent who has been the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer since 2005. Social media gives up quick dopamine fixes - can reading? How can we build reading habits in a fast-paced, technological world? Can reading aloud be beneficial? In this episode, hear Meghan Cox Gurdon discuss reading aloud, reading with screens vs. reading with paper books, and how to remove distractions in 21st Century.

 
 

Podcast: Cool Science Radio - The Neuroscience of Reading Aloud - Meghan Cox Gurdon

KPCW | By Lynn Ware Peek, John Wells

Published February 14, 2019 at 1:40 PM MST

 

Shootin Straight Episode 11: Meghan Cox Gurdon

This week on Shootin’ Straight with Ken Buck, I had the honor of interviewing Meghan Cox Gurdon. Gurdon is an essayist, book critic, and former foreign correspondent who has been the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer since 2005. Her work has appeared widely, in publications such as the Washington Examiner, the Daily Telegraph, the Christian Science Monitor, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and National Review.

Podcast: Read Aloud Revival #130:
Reading Aloud as an Obstinate Act of Love, with Meghan Cox Gurdon

By Sarah Mackenzie June 10, 2019 For Mamas of Older Kids & Teens, For Mamas of Younger Kids, Podcast

In our culture today, is reading aloud an ‘obstinate act of love?’ Meghan Cox Gurdon, this week’s guest and author of The Enchanted Hour, believes so. Meghan is the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book reviewer and says her five kids were a built-in focus group.

Why I read aloud to my teenagers

Storytime isn’t just for young children, says literary critic Meghan Cox Gurdon

Giulia Rhodes

Sat 9 Feb 2019

Mghan Cox Gurdon is reading aloud to her daughter Phoebe. The book is Dominic, William Steig’s tale of a benevolent, wandering dog, and a family favourite. But this is no cosy bedtime vignette with a yawning, pyjama-clad toddler perched…

We had heard of some of the benefits of reading aloud to kids, but we were blown away by The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction.

This week we are joined by a writer extraordinaire- Meghan Cox Gurdon. Her writing gigs include a weekly column and children’s book reviews for the Wall Street Journal, which she has been doing for the past fifteen years, as well as her first book, The Enchanted Hour, which is all about kids and reading. She has read to her five children since the day she brought her first-born home from the hospital and now that her kids are almost all grown, she finds herself reading aloud with her husband during those hours that used to be filled with reading to their children.

End the Distractions, Be Enchanted

By NR Interview

January 26, 2019

The time we spend reading aloud is like no other time,” Meghan Cox Gurdon writes in her new book, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction. “A miraculous alchemy takes place when one person reads to another, one that converts…