First Things Podcast
First Things Podcast
First Things
Mark Bauerlein on Literary Theory
33 minutes Posted Feb 16, 2022 at 11:00 am.
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Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Mark Bauerlein to talk about his article from the March print edition, “Purveyors of Truth” They discuss the origins of theory in post-war Germany, the exhilaration of being a young scholar during theory’s heyday, and the unfortunate decline in the humanities as theory has been co-opted by diversity bureaucrats.