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
I’ve been tracking youth reading habits and test scores for a long time, but I’ve never asked this question: What becomes of a faith that places a book at the center of worship if the rising generation doesn’t read? I don’t mean illiteracy. The problem is what reading researchers . . . . Continue Reading »
The empirical evidence against computers in the classroom is mounting. Continue Reading »
Camille Paglia believes there is a causal connection between young Americans’ ignorance of history and their dim view of present conditions. Continue Reading »
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with senior editor Mark Bauerlein. Featuring: Drew Trotter on the renewal of religion in higher education. Continue Reading »
Amy Wax, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and First Things contributor, has angered her law school colleagues. Thirty-three professors have “condemned” her views in a recent statement. Continue Reading »
Over at the Claremont Review of Books, Mark Bauerlein examines a new biography of Ernest Hemingway. Continue Reading »
With Apple CEO Tim Cook's recent decision to donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center, corporate America has entered a whole new hyper-political territory. Continue Reading »
Here's a list of films for young girls—movies that show strong female characters with the kind of energy, intelligence, wit, and initiative our daughters hope to develop themselves. Continue Reading »
The sooner parents and teachers coach their charges out of the “like” disease, the more their charges will grow and prosper. Continue Reading »
The first installment in an ongoing interview series with senior editor Mark Bauerlein. Featuring: recent cases before the Supreme Court on religious liberty and discrimination. Continue Reading »
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