Mark Bauerlein is Senior Editor at First Things and Professor of English at Emory University, where he has taught since earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1989. For two years (2003-05) he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997), The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief (1997), and The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008). His essays have appeared in PMLA, Partisan Review, Wilson Quarterly, Commentary, and New Criterion, and his commentaries and reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Weekly Standard, The Guardian, Chronicle of Higher Education, and other national periodicals.
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Mark Bauerlein
Our humanistic institutions are in the hands of people whose humanitas is feeble. They’re proud of that fact, though. They believe it’s warranted by social conditions, and they’re ready to pass along their ineptitude to the pupils they’re paid to edify. Continue Reading »
Jeff Rubin joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, The Expendables: How the Middle Class Got Screwed By Globalization. Continue Reading »
Nathan Pinkoski joins the podcast to discuss Eric Zemmour and his recent First Things article, “The Most Controversial Man in France.” Continue Reading »
Eric Metaxas joins the podcast to discuss his book, Is Atheism Dead? Continue Reading »
Jared Knott joins the podcast to discuss his book Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World. Continue Reading »
Dennis Prager joins the podcast to discuss his book, The Rational Passover Haggadah. Continue Reading »
Casey Chalk joins the podcast to discuss his book, The Persecuted: True Stories of Christians Living Their Faith in Muslim Lands. Continue Reading »
Hans von Spakovsky joins the podcast to discuss his book, Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote. Continue Reading »
George Yancey joins the podcast to discuss his book, One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America. Continue Reading »
Michael Cholbi joins the podcast to discuss his book, Grief: A Philosophical Guide. Continue Reading »
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