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Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein is Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University and an editor at First Things. He earned his doctorate at UCLA in 1988. He also served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2005. His books include Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (1997) and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults (2022). He is a trustee of New College of Florida.

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English for the Dazed and Confused

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Give young Americans the story of literature from the Puritans to the Modernists. Make it a tradition and hand it down as an ingredient in their formation as citizens and tell them that they stand in the shadow of American greatness. This is not only a matter of knowledge and skill. It’s for their health. 
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Beauty and Charismatic Humanities

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In order to win the undergraduates once more, the humanities have a clear course to follow. They must abandon identity politics, which only produce a tense and humorless classroom. More deeply, they must insist upon the old appeals to genius, greatness, masterpieces, beauty, and sublimity.
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A Call to Conservative Donors

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If future conservative politicians are to have a conservative tradition in their heads, we need to finance programs that introduce college students to the conservative and liberal traditions through philosophy, history, literature, and art.
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Sneering Social Constructionists

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Sneering at persons who are not social constructionists has become commonplace. Until defenders of inherent virtues, natural laws, divine beings, and other things that transcend social reality learn to overcome this initial set-up, they will be forever on the defensive.
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Culture: The Missing Conservative Tradition

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Conservatives need a literary tradition that matches Russell Kirk’s political tradition in The Conservative Mind; Robert Oscar López’s new book is a pioneer in this effort.
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Liberalism, Relativism, and the Novel: A Reply to Ramos

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How many Solzhenitsyns are occupying the pipelines of novelists in America?
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Liberalism Is Bad for Literature

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Jeffrey Eugenides shows what happens to the novel when courtship and marriage lose their binding character.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Government Worker

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The conditions that inspired "The Scarlet Letter" highlight the gap between public employment and civic motives.
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Intellectuals and the Masses

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Intellectuals have failed to recognize the real character of the Tea Party.
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