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FeaturesNovember 2007 "The Closing of the American Mind" at 20 On Allan Bloom the teacher, taking on the listless realms of academe.
Editors’ note: When The Closing of the American Mind appeared in the spring of 1987, it was an
immediate sensation—a source of jubilation and consternation
in more or less equal measure. Allan Bloom’s book spawned a small
cataract of books about the university, some extending
Bloom’s criticisms, some taking issue with them. Unlike many
polemical works, however, Closing nimbly transcended its
moment. Love it or hate it—or love it and hate it—Bloom’s
book was an unavoidable document: a reflection that anyone
concerned with the fate of American culture could accept or
reject, but could not in good conscience ignore. We were
therefore delighted to collaborate with the Manhattan
Institute’s Center for the American University—itself a
recent legacy of Bloom’s pioneering work—in a conference
examining The Closing of the American Mind at 20. The
conference, which took place in New York on Octob ...
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