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Closing of the American MindThe brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture, featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson.Read More
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Chicago Magazine, May 11, 2012
...if it was about classics Schaefer Riley wouldn't have attracted so much outrage, at least now that Allan Bloom is no longer with us. But it's also true that Schaefer Riley has been able to write critically and pointedly about race for the CHE without...
Daily Nebraskan, April 24, 2012
...It was less than a year ago that philosopher Allan Bloom entered my life, yet I can’t imagine existence without his words. No individual has so challenged my world view, assaulted my value preferences, mocked my conception of self-worth...
Daily Beast, April 13, 2012
...by Maisie Allison Andrew Ferguson reflects on Allan Bloom's bestselling book, dubbed the "first shot in the culture wars": Bloom’s reputation for fuddy-duddyism rested largely on his instantly notorious discussion of the “gutter phenomenon”...
New Yorker, April 12, 2012
...For the conservative of 1987, Allan Bloom’s "The Closing of the American Mind" struck many deserving targets—rock music, sexual promiscuity, the sixties, Black Power, divorce, feminism. Its most distinctive villain, though, was more abstract, a...
IOL, April 1, 2012
...a monk carrying a spiritual message handed down by God himself in a prolonged period of meditation. Thus Allan Bloom, editor of Kojève’s book, could not avoid the conclusion: "It is the special merit of Kojève to be one of the very few sure guides to...
Weekly Standard, March 31, 2012
...Allan Bloom’s ‘Closing of the American Mind’ 25 years later. Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts Alerts Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest...
VDare, March 27, 2012
...mission in addition to preaching its creed at home. Strauss’s star student at the University of Chicago, Allan Bloom, later explained in his best-selling “conservative” classic, The Closing of the American Mind (page 153) that “[W]hen we...
Breitbart.com, April 9, 2012
...credible fashion. Resident conservative Jennifer Rubin at the Washington Post compared the 25th anniversary of the publication of Allan Bloom’s groundbreaking The Closing of the American Mind to the release of the new CAS report. She astutely pointed...
American Thinker, April 9, 2012
...rest of the community. The important thing is mostly to demonstrate one's concern for "fairness." As Allan Bloom cogently observed years ago, since for Rawls "society must take on the whole burden of providing and distributing the elements of happiness,"...
Chicago Jewish Community Online, April 5, 2012
...is there that Israel's adversaries try to shape the American mind (to modify a phrase introduced by Allan Bloom 25 years ago) so Israel will no longer be thought of with sympathetic understanding. For those of us who are concerned and involved in campus...
TPMCafe, April 4, 2012
...the bearers of "a form of parochialism bordering on chauvinism" but from thinkers whom conservatives invoke, such as Allan Bloom, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Harvey Mansfield, and Samuel Huntington. Warnings come also from Yale's own history. When the...
Huffington Post, April 4, 2012
...the bearers of "a form of parochialism bordering on chauvinism" but from thinkers whom conservatives invoke, such as Allan Bloom, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Harvey Mansfield, and Samuel Huntington. Warnings come also from Yale's own history. When...
IOL, April 2, 2012
...a monk carrying a spiritual message handed down by God himself in a prolonged period of meditation. Thus Allan Bloom, editor of Kojève’s book, could not avoid the conclusion: "It is the special merit of Kojève to be one of the very few sure guides to...
IOL, April 1, 2012
...a monk carrying a spiritual message handed down by God himself in a prolonged period of meditation. Thus Allan Bloom, editor of Kojève’s book, could not avoid the conclusion: "It is the special merit of Kojève to be one of the very few sure guides to...
