Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One)
Jun 11, 2018
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On Allan Bloom's 1987 best-selleing polemic. What is the role of the university in our democracy? Bloom thinks that today's students are conformist, relativistic, and nihilistic, and that great books and thinking for thinking's sake are the cure.