This morning I awoke to my uncle’s forwarding of Mark Bauerlein’s Opinion piece in yesterday’s NYTimes. The article surprised me, not so much because of its complaints–complaints about apathetic university students and corporate administrators (complaints echoing Thomas Lounsbury’s complaints about “Compulsory Composition” in 1911)–but because of its tired waxing poetic about “how things used to be.”
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