Mark Bauerlein is emeritus professor of English at Emory University and a trustee at New College of Florida.
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It’s one thing to recognize the giving way of norms of behavior and language, Mark Bauerlein writes. It’s quite another to take pride in the deterioration.
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Sure, writes Mark Bauerlein, be radical--radically cultured.
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It’s leaning left, notes Mark Bauerlein, but beware the tit-for-tat presumptions.
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Say the first thing, or the first hundred things, that come to mind when you look at this picture. Mark Bauerlein will interpret the results.
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Mark Bauerlein takes issue with Russell Jacoby’s appraisal of thinkers on the Right. Russell is comparing conservative pundits to liberal scholars, Bauerlein says. That’s a parochial apples-to-oranges approach.
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Why do so many seem to crave some simplistic verdict on this Founding Father, asks Mark Bauerlein, when historical evidence compels us to take a more-nuanced view?
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When college seniors, particularly males, don’t want to leave school, Mark Bauerlein writes, colleges have failed.
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In advocating for them, we’d better emphasize what they build and not what they destroy, Mark Bauerlein advises.
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Mark Bauerlein offers a subtle but ubiquitous argument for the humanities: They offer a chance to think about and advance one’s daily tastes beyond the barrage of pop culture.
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Web 3.0 is a self-imposed digital Panopticon, says one social-media skeptic. Roger that, Mark Bauerlein writes.
