The Closing of the American Mind

• The Closing of the American Mind Thirty Years Later: A Symposium, by Nathan Schlueter. Public Discourse 05/22/17.
  • Allan Bloom’s Souls Without Longing, All Grown Up, by Peter Augustine Lawler. The Public Discourse 05/23/17.
  • Allan Bloom on American Nihilism and Its Degrading Vocabulary, by Michael Platt. 05/24/17.
  • Allan Bloom’s University and Mine: From Racial Intimidation to Trigger Warnings, by Paul A. Rahe. 05/25/17.
  • Bloom’s War for the Imagination, by Jon Fennel. 05/26/17.
• The Closing of the American Mind: 30 Years Ago, by Paul A. Rahe. Richochet 05/25/17.
• The Legacy of “The Closing of the American Mind”, by Wilfred McClay. The Imaginative Conservative 05/20/15.
• Bloom Beyond the Culture Wars, or How The Closing of the American Mind Changed My Life: a Testimonial, by Andrew Hartman. Society for US Intellectual History. 11/20/12.
• The Book That Drove Them Crazy: Allan Bloom’s ‘Closing of the American Mind’ 25 years later, by Andrew Ferguson. The Weekly Standard 04/09/12.
• Who Closed the American Mind?, by Patrick J. Deneen. The American Conservative 10/01/12. "Allan Bloom was brilliant, but wrong about Burke and multiculturalism."
• Re-Opening the American Mind, by Sean Collins. Spiked 06/29/12.
• Re-Opening the American Mind, by Liel Leibovitz. The Tablet 04/11/12. "Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind remains as important as ever, and as misunderstood, 25 years after the 1980s culture wars."
• “Openness” & "The Closing of the American Mind", by Roger Kimball. The New Criterion November 2007.
• 'The Closing of the American Mind,' 20 Years Later, by Donald Lazere. Inside Higher Ed 09/18/07.
• 20 Years After The Closing of the American Mind AlbertMohler.com. [Audio] 05/01/07. Dr. Mohler, Peter Lawler and Mark Coppenger on what Bloom’s analysis means for today.
• The Closing of the American Mind Revisited, by R.R. Reno. First Things 02/27/07.
• Swallowing Goldfish, by Alexander Nehamas. London Review of Books Vol. 9 No. 22 · 10 December 1987.
• Undemocratic Vistas, by Martha C. Nussbaum. New York Review of Books November 5, 1987.
  • Reponse: David Bain, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum New York Review of Books March 31, 1988.
• Allan Bloom's Guide to College, by Allan Feeney. The New Yorker 04/12/12.
• The Groves of Ignorance, by Roger Kimball. New York Times 04/05/87.