Time to make fun of Allan Bloom again? Well, why not? Over at Spiked, Sean Collins has an excellent take on the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Bloom’s 1987 best-seller, The Closing of the American Mind. Collins kicks things off with the following juicy quote from the book: “Picture a 13-year-old boy sitting in the living…
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Allan Bloom: Doctor, or Symptom, of Our Distress?
Over at the Weekly Standard, Andrew Ferguson has a piece commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of Allan Bloom’s ponderously titled The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. Back when the book was published, I don’t think I was the only one to wonder how…