Mark Bauerlein

Biography

Mark Bauerlein is an editor at First Things and Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University.

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The Reckless American

Pursuit of Happiness
October 24, 2025

Free Speech and Common Sense Need New Champions

Constitutionalism
October 7, 2025
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Free Speech and Common Sense Need New Champions

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Civitas Outlook
Is There Anything New Under the AI Sun?

OpenAI needs to build on the successes of open markets and turn away from regulation, taxation, and cartelization.

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Locke, Meet Claude

The concern is not regulation per se. It is a regulation that outruns its justification by arriving before the evidence, foreclosing the technology before its benefits are understood, and insulating the powerful from competition that would otherwise discipline them. That is the pattern worth resisting. 

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