I believe this piece was originally by a writer and sometime teacher named Nicholas Stix, actual or pen name I don’t know.
I could be wrong but I think material has been added to the the original essay. It is possible it was originally published in City Journal.
Just my two cents, off to work (not intentionally posting and running).
See post 54. The original article is from the Marty Nemko blog and was written by Christopher Jackson.
It has definitely had some material added to it.
I don’t know if somebody copied it, added some of their own material and posted it to Craig’s List or what.