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
Robert Maranto discusses school choice and Elizabeth Bartholet’s criticisms of homeschooling. Continue Reading »
Lawrence Mead explains why the journal “Society” retracted his article “Poverty and Culture,” and why many are calling for his cancellation. Continue Reading »
John Moran discusses Australian wokeness and his book The Resurrection Mantra: Build Hope and Resilience Into Your Life. Continue Reading »
Daniel J. Mahoney joins Mark to discuss woke despotism, Dostoevsky’s “Demons,” and why nihilism—not moralism—is behind today’s cancel culture. Continue Reading »
I am sorry that young Americans in college don’t get to experience the hazardous joys of theory that they did before. Continue Reading »
C. C. Pecknold joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss what’s happening at Catholic universities today. Continue Reading »
Jennifer Roback Morse discusses her book The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along. Continue Reading »
Robert Weissberg joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss what “toleration” has come to mean in our society. Continue Reading »
David Barnhizer discusses his book, The Artificial Intelligence Contagion: Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth and the Social Order?, with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Continue Reading »
Psychiatrist Mark McDonald joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss how the school closures are affecting kids’ mental health. Continue Reading »
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