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
No matter how energetic and vigilant the teachers are in this time of seclusion, hours at home can't replicate the classroom. Continue Reading »
F. H. Buckley joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, American Secession. Continue Reading »
Matthew Bunson joins Mark to discuss Catholic voting patterns and the results of a recent survey examining the beliefs of U.S. Catholics. Continue Reading »
Glenn Arbery, president of Wyoming Catholic College, discusses the college’s great books curriculum and outdoor program. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Wesley Hill discusses his recent book, The Lord’s Prayer: A Guide to Praying to Our Father. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Ross Douthat discusses his new book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success. Continue Reading »
On this episode, David Azerrad discusses the quasi-religious rites and “preaching” of identity politics—and how all this wokeness is mostly performative. Continue Reading »
A few years ago, when a group of students at Emory University prepared to demonstrate against a controversial speaker, I asked a senior why they wanted to do so. She had a background different from that of the typical selective school attendee, a hard-edged one, and she’d already told me that . . . . Continue Reading »
Craig Fehrman discusses his new book, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote. Continue Reading »
On this episode, Arthur Milikh discusses the left's efforts to ban “hate speech.” Continue Reading »
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