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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Peter Stravinskas joins Mark to discuss school choice and the Supreme Court’s decision in Espinoza v. Montana. Continue Reading »
The economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic have forced a number of Catholic schools in the United States to close. Nora Kenney joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Bjorn Lomborg discusses his new book, False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet. Continue Reading »
Academic content is now implicated in a technology that youths have been primed to use, interpret, and value for different purposes. Continue Reading »
Mark is joined by Justin Garrison and Ryan Holston, the editors of The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age. Continue Reading »
Sumantra Maitra explains why elites are leading the current wave of iconoclastic protests in the U.S. and U.K. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Joel Kotkin discusses his book The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class. Continue Reading »
On this episode, George Weigel discusses his new book The Next Pope: The Office of Peter and a Church in Mission. Continue Reading »
Hadley Arkes and Mark Bauerlein discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County. Continue Reading »
Benjamin Merkle discusses his book Discontinuity to Continuity: A Survey of Dispensational and Covenantal Theologies. Continue Reading »
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