Our Tame Leaders

Our Tame Leaders
Producer Mike Richards accepts the Outstanding Game/Audience Participation Show award for "The Price is Right" onstage during the 40th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. on June 16, 2013. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Mark Bauerlein
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When I was young and inexperienced, with no money and no career, I nonetheless made a firm assumption about the people who had made it, who had risen to the top of their fields. They were daring individuals, I thought, outspoken and candid, willing to go against the crowd. Those were people with a skeptical eye on the conventional wisdom, ever ready to challenge and dispute whenever they sensed a stale assertion of it.

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.
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