Mark Bauerlein | Britannica

Mark Bauerlein

Contributor

Connect with Mark Bauerlein

Websites : The American Spectator, The Chronicle Of Higher Education, First Things, Emory University

BIOGRAPHY

Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University, senior editor at First Things magazine, and author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30).

Primary Contributions (1)

Could the Non-digital Complement Our Digital Classrooms?

When The Boston Globe reported some years ago that an elite prep school in Massachusetts had set out to give away all its books and go one-hundred percent digital, most readers probably shrugged. This was just a sign of the times. American educators and parents generally assume a paperless future…

Publications (3)

The State of the American Mind 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism (June 2015)

By Mark Bauerlein, Adam Bellow

In 1987, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind was published; a wildly popular book that drew attention to the shift in American culture away from the tenants that made America—and Americans—unique. Bloom focused on a breakdown in the American curriculum, but many sensed that the issue affected more than education. The very essence of what it meant to be an American was disappearing.

That was over twenty years ago. Since then, the United States has experienced unprecedented...

The Digital Divide Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking (2011)

By Mark Bauerlein

This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.

Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful and democratic new steps in education, information gathering, and human progress. But...

The Dumbest Generation How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) (2009)

By Mark Bauerlein

This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.

The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its impact on American democracy and culture.

For decades, concern has been brewing about the dumbed-down popular culture available...