The Dumbest Generation?

See last week’s WSJ piece “Can U Read Kant?” in which David Robinson reviews Mark Bauerlein’s new book. In The Dumbest Generation, Bauerlein, an Emory English prof, contends that the digital revolution and cultural factors “have conspired to create a level of public ignorance so high as to threaten our democracy”. OK, it’s bad, but let’s not go nuts.