My Gift to You
April 5th, 2012




Run, don’t walk, to Andrew Ferguson’s piece on the 25th anniversary of Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind.

Awesome.

  1. SkinsFanPG April 5, 2012 at 10:50 am

    “The Closing of the American Mind shows Bloom to have been an Athens man all the way (not to mention a Jew, a homosexual, and a Hoosier. Truly, they broke the mold .  .  . )”
    So awesome.

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  2. Nedward April 5, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    The parenthetical Snooki fact was the true craftsman’s autograph.

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  3. Nedward April 5, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    I always wonder when this comes up if anybody else also read Bill Henry’s posthumous “In Defense of Elitism” which is like the paleolib palate cleanser to Bloom’s aristocratic observations (the rare post-Closing book that isn’t 100% pro or con, more like pained & mournful agreement)

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  4. Dr. Jonathan Crane April 7, 2012 at 5:06 am

    Feel free to link to every Andrew Ferguson piece. You’re performing a public service.

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