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Mark Cooprider

Mark Cooprider is an American teacher, writer, and video creator currently living and working in Bangkok, Thailand. He teaches literature to international school students, emphasizing classical approaches to relevant issues in his classes. His video work can be found on the YouTube channel “A Moonlighting English Teacher.” Outside of his work, Mark spends much of his free time raising his two young children alongside his wife, Alissa.

Articles by Mark Cooprider

Civilization, Escape, or Community: Revisiting Into the Wild with Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry pleads with us to see that true joy and fulfillment— the very motivations at the heart of Huck Finn and Christopher McCandless—are to be found not in escape…