Article: Generation F.(Soundbite)(Mark Bauerlein interview)(Interview)

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In his provocative new book The Dumbest Generation (Tarcher/Penguin), Mark Bauerlein argues that "the digital age stupefies young Americans and jeopardizes our future" by turning out hyper-networked kids who can track each other's every move with ease but are largely ignorant of history, economics, culture, and other subjects he believes are prerequisites for meaningful civic participation.

Bauerlein, an English professor at Emory University who has written for reason, notes that only one out of 50 college students in a 2003 Foundation for Individual Rights survey could name the first right mentioned in the First Amendment. ...

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