Mark Bauerlein

Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Schools Can’t Compete With Youth Culture

Commentary When reading and math scores came out last month and showed an alarming drop in academic achievement, ...

Viewpoints July 3, 2023
The Spell of ‘Woke’

Commentary At American Greatness on May 25, there was an article by Joshua Mitchell that should be read ...

Viewpoints June 5, 2023
Literary Lineage in Arkansas

Commentary There's a simple truth about human nature that liberalism denies, that it rejects in principle. The truth ...

Viewpoints May 8, 2023
The Reading Divide

Commentary A story appeared recently in The New Yorker carrying the funereal title “The End of the English ...

Viewpoints March 27, 2023
The DEI Device, or, What Would Marx Say?

Commentary When I was in college, you never heard the sacred troika, "diversity, equity, and inclusion"(DEI). I started ...

Viewpoints February 9, 2023
Our Global Leaders

Commentary Perhaps it was only a matter of time, once the Soviet Union collapsed, for American patriotism to ...

Viewpoints December 27, 2022
The Spiritual Death of the People

Commentary The reelection of Mitch McConnell to the Republican Senate leadership is but one more shot in the ...

Viewpoints November 21, 2022
The Youth Problem

Commentary Gen Z went nearly 2-to-1 for Democrats last week, which should put to rest the occasional assertion ...

Viewpoints November 12, 2022
Know-It-Alls and Know-Nothings

Commentary It's one of the more ludicrous ironies of the “woke” movement that its members believe that they ...

Viewpoints October 24, 2022
The 21st-Century Protester

Commentary It was some time around 2010, I think, that the nature of student protest took a new ...

Viewpoints September 26, 2022
The Liberal Imagination

Commentary When President Joe Biden took the step of casting MAGA citizens as the enemy within, writers and ...

Viewpoints September 15, 2022
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is Going to Get Worse

Commentary Never in my lifetime have so many people been so obsessed with one man. People despised Nixon, ...

Viewpoints August 25, 2022
The Phony Declaration of Woke

Commentary If you go to the website of the school system of my city, the first statement you'll ...

Viewpoints August 16, 2022
This Is It

Commentary The vote is all an American conservative has got. That’s the painful reality that faces anyone resistant ...

Viewpoints July 28, 2022
The Historical Meaning of Donald Trump

Commentary It's already 5 1/2 years since that November day and night that shocked the liberal world. I ...

Viewpoints June 22, 2022
The Adjunct’s Anger and False Politics

Commentary One of the worst ills besetting American society today is the rising number of well-educated people who ...

Viewpoints June 6, 2022
The Femininity of Cancel Culture

Commentary In one of his many interviews during the annus mirabilis of 2018, Jordan Peterson sat down with ...

Viewpoints May 16, 2022
Herbert Marcuse Versus the Radical Youth

The following story is adapted from Bauerlein’s recent book, “The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to ...

Viewpoints May 5, 2022
It Began in Academia

Commentary It was sometime in the 1990s that academics fell in love with the idea of transgression. Not ...

Viewpoints April 26, 2022
From Debate to Diagnosis

Commentary Ever since the publication of "The Authoritarian Personality" in 1950, liberals and leftists have often chosen a ...

Viewpoints April 1, 2022
How to Keep Your Kids From Woke

Commentary For the young people of the United States, the first advantage of "wokeness" is that it provides ...

Viewpoints March 22, 2022
Gen Z Won’t Rebel

Commentary Generation Z is starting to enter adulthood, and there are signs in this pandemic age that has ...

Viewpoints March 7, 2022
Liberal Elites Are a Taboo Society

Commentary To get into the elite in America today—and for the past few decades—you need good grades, high ...

Viewpoints March 3, 2022
The New Moral Law

Commentary President Joe Biden’s announcement that a black woman would be his nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer ...

Viewpoints February 8, 2022
It Pays to Be an Activist

Commentary Do you recall the shrieking undergrad at Yale, the one yelling at professor Nicholas Christakis on the ...

Viewpoints January 6, 2022
The Negation of the Past

Commentary I live on Lee Street in Alexandria, Virginia. Yes, that Lee—Robert E. grew up a few blocks ...

Viewpoints December 21, 2021
From American Shame to Civic Breakdown

Commentary I walked into a drug store in Manhattan in a nice area not far from the Empire ...

Viewpoints December 9, 2021