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Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University and a senior editor at First Things. His most recent book is The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (2008).

Latest articles by Mark Bauerlein

The Big Idea
A conservative scholar makes the case that Trump is the disruptive force America needsA conservative scholar makes the case that Trump is the disruptive force America needs
The Big Idea

His rise was an inevitable reaction to the Era of Hurt Feelings.

By Mark Bauerlein