Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
There are diamonds in the rough, places where great books and ideas, masterpieces and heroes, and beauty and sublimity are still imparted to young minds.
The choice of what to teach is not a matter of equality or secularity. It is a matter of what young Americans need to learn to understand America’s history.