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Citizens Need Knowledge: Colleges (and Lawmakers) Must Act

Citizens Need Knowledge: Colleges (and Lawmakers) Must Act
A student student sits in a lecture hall while class is being dismissed at the University of Texas at Austin on February 22, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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When disruptions happen on college campuses because students find a speaker offensive, or when a poll appears showing that 39 percent of Americans more or less agree that “The First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees,” we know that the civic education of rising Americans has broken down. Too many citizens don’t know what our constitutional order demands of them.
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Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein
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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.