In 1987, who could have envisioned the two-year nadir of 2009‒10, when not only the Democrats, but indeed, the very caricatured and politically correct academia of Bloom’s nightmares, would come to control the entire government of the United States: both houses of . . . Continue reading →
Allan Bloom
The Closing Of The American Mind: When Impartiality And Objectivity Become A Crime
Today, of course, the contention that some ideas are better than others—let alone that some deserve to be called “the best”—is rejected as an elitist crime against “diversity.” The cult, the ideology of diversity—what we have baptized as “identity politics,” which represents . . . Continue reading →