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<title><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/21995.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Bauerlein]]></description><category domain="21995">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[How the SPLC Got Into America's Classrooms]]></title>
							<link>https://firstthings.com/how-the-splc-got-into-americas-classrooms/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been indicted for a variety of crimes. To laymen, the allegation is that the organization'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has been paying hate groups to engage in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Digitized Classrooms: What Were We Thinking?]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/society-culture/what-were-we-thinking-in-2008/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2008, after I'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'d'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' written a book'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with the subtitle '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' I was labeled a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Luddite'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' more than 50 times in various lectures, panels, and radio interviews. I argued that social media,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Department of Education May Be Gone, Finally]]></title>
							<link>https://firstthings.com/the-department-of-education-may-be-gone-finally/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[News came out last week that the Trump administration is stepping up efforts to dismantle the Department of Education. We've already seen a large number of staff reductions in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trustee Solution for Higher Ed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-trustee-solution-for-higher-education?skip=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Florida's experience proves that a strong governor and a few savvy and fearless conservatives can advance reform.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Trouble with Gender Studies]]></title>
							<link>https://chroniclesmagazine.org/featured/the-trouble-with-gender-studies/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At New College, we recently ditched the gender studies program, which did not benefit the college in any way but was, in fact, doing great harm.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DeSantis Has Enhanced African-American Studies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.aol.com/gov-desantis-enhanced-not-weakened-203803271.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The inclusion of so many African-American works in the B.E.S.T standards puts to rest the charge of educational racism, New College board member says.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Florida Chips Away at Woke Poison In Education]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/20/with-anti-woke-college-trustee-picks-desantis-chips-away-at-the-political-poison-in-education/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If professors make students work hard and produce excellent work, that should be good enough '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' no politics needed.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Historical Meaning of Donald Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-historical-meaning-of-donald-trump_4551713.html?utm_source=epochHG&amp;utm_campaign=rcp</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is already five-and-a-half years since that November day and night that shocked the liberal world. I know what it did to my faculty and media colleagues, but the bigger impact on the United States isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t so clear.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Race-Based Illness at the Best of the Best Schools]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/24/race-based-illness-at-the-best-of-the-best/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[At elite universities one must never, ever criticize students of color, especially the black students. Those individuals are sacred.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Cowardice of the Elite Bodes Ill for U.S.]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2021/08/11/the-fears-of-the-elite/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We aren'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a normal society, and the timid reticence of the elite whenever a charge of political incorrectness is launched is one of the sure signs of abnormality.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is a Nation of Rogues]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/america-is-a-nation-of-rogues/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A country is more than a set of principles. It is a character'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and America's is rebellious.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Problem With Online Learning]]></title>
							<link>https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/07/the-problem-with-online-learning</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Academic content is now implicated in a technology that youths have been primed to use, interpret, and value for different purposes.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Who's Radical? On Confidence &amp; Common Sense]]></title>
							<link>https://amgreatness.com/2019/06/29/whos-the-radical-on-confidence-and-common-sense/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I just heard a fellow on CNN say that Donald Trump has radicalized the Republicans. Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s be clear on what is and isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t radical.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What It's Like to Be the Only Trump Fan at Thanksgiving]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/22/trump-supporter-thanksgiving-dinner-family-215853</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Enough with the crazy uncle jokes. Here's what it's like to be the black sheep at the table.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Establishment Doesn't Have a Clue--But Bannon Does]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/16/opinions/bannon-culture-war-bauerlein/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't understand why so many people have been aroused and inspired by Steve Bannon's culture "war talk" should listen to the Paul Ryan interview on "Face the Nation" a few weeks back. It offered a perfect example of what frustrates them about the Republican leadership....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bannon Turned the Table on Liberals]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/12/opinions/how-bannon-turned-the-tables-on-liberals-bauerlein/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CBS's interview with Steve Bannon upended the left's expectations: ruthless strategist? Yes. Malicious, bigoted, idiotic? No way--just confronting the Beltway with reality, writes Mark Bauerlein.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[By Leaving Trump's Panel, CEOs Made Things Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/opinions/ceo-resignation-mistake-opinion-bauerlein/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Liberals have helped make it impossible to sit at a table with someone with whom you disagree, writes Mark Bauerlein, but isolating and excluding other viewpoints is antithetical to a shared democracy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Liberals Can't Handle the Asian Factor in Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/opinions/liberals-affirmative-action-asian-factor-bauerlein/index.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The NY Times reflexively mis-characterized Justice Dept.'s affirmative action initiative as discrimination against whites, reflecting liberals' discomfort with the Trump administration transgressing a 'sacred principle,' writes Mark Bauerlein.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are Democrats Losing the Youth Vote?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/are-democrats-losing-the-youth-vote.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Mark Bauerlein</author>
							<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' ONCE again, the youth vote went firmly Democratic in last week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s election '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' but the actual numbers, combined with some telling survey results, indicate that the party'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s grip on the young may be loosening.]]></description>
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