Mark Bauerlein

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July 22, 2022

Netflix Whiffs on the Humanities

Mark Bauerlein

A review of "The Chair," a limited streaming television series, Netflix.com, 2021, 1 Season.

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February 25, 2021

The Few, the Proud, the Profs

Mark Bauerlein

For an academic field so self-consciously preoccupied with intelligence, the humanities don’t seem to be run very intelligently. Humanities fields now account for only around five percent o......

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March 23, 2020

The Rediscovery of Curriculum

Mark Bauerlein

A review of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System, Natalie Wexler, Avery, 2019, 324 pp., $27.00 hardcover. Bauerlein notes that while author Natalie......

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July 21, 2016

Final Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

Part 3: Service. When you join a committee, you either make your colleagues' workdays easier or make them harder. If the latter, they will remember the fact and it may very well come up at te......

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July 21, 2016

More Advice for the Untenured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

Part 2: Teaching. Sage-on-the-stage, the flipped classroom? No need for that. Just avoid a few crucial missteps. Plus: How to raise your students’ grades without inflating them. From First......

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July 21, 2016

Some Advice for the Untentured Conservative Humanist

Mark Bauerlein

Part 1: Research. If you are an untenured humanities who is also a religious or social conservative, the bar is set higher for you. Mark Bauerlein is here to offer advice to the untenured professor.&n......

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