Episode 192: "The Closing of the American Mind": Allan Bloom on Education (Part One)

On Allan Bloom's 1987 best-seller about why students' disconnection from Great Books has led to relativism and ultimately nihilism. What is the role of the university in our democracy? Bloom thinks that today's students are conformist, relativism, and nihilistic, and that great books and thinking for thinking's sake are the cure.

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