Mark Bauerlein

"Mark Bauerlein is Contributing Editor at First Things and Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University, where he taught after earning his PhD in English at UCLA in 1989. For two years, he served as Director of the Office of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His books include Whitman and the American Idiom, Literary Criticism: An Autopsy, The Pragmatic Mind: Explorations in the Psychology of Belief, The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, and The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults.