Left: An engraved portrait of American newspaper publisher Adolph Ochs, published on 1918. (The Cyclopædia of American Biography via Wikimedia Commons) Right: William Bennett, former education secretary under Reagan, speaks at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Oct. 20, 2011. Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0
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.