tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71970947546150663182024-02-08T09:39:30.007-08:00The Closing of the American MindAn ongoing archive of online news, articles, interviews, and discussions related to Allan Bloom's 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind.Christopher Blosserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385159494196923575noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7197094754615066318.post-1839804678365426082017-05-29T12:03:00.001-07:002017-05-29T12:03:08.415-07:00<img src="http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/images/bloom_drove_them_crazy.jpg" width="300" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5"><ul>
<li><a href="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/18956/" target=_blank><i>The Closing of the American Mind</i> Thirty Years Later: A Symposium</a>, by Nathan Schlueter. <i>Public Discourse</i> 05/22/17.
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<li><a href="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/19458/" target=_blank>Allan Bloom’s Souls Without Longing, All Grown Up</a>, by Peter Augustine Lawler. <i>The Public Discourse</i> 05/23/17.
<li><a href="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/19063/" target=_blank>Allan Bloom on American Nihilism and Its Degrading Vocabulary</a>, by Michael Platt. 05/24/17.
<li><a href="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/19110/" target=_blank>Allan Bloom’s University and Mine: From Racial Intimidation to Trigger Warnings</a>, by Paul A. Rahe. 05/25/17.
<li><a href="http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/05/19205/" target=_blank>Bloom’s War for the Imagination</a>, by Jon Fennel. 05/26/17.
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<li><a href="https://ricochet.com/432530/closing-american-mind-30-years-ago/" target=_blank>The Closing of the American Mind: 30 Years Ago</a>, by Paul A. Rahe. <i>Richochet</i> 05/25/17.
<li><a href="http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/05/legacy-closing-of-the-american-mind.html" target=_blank>The Legacy of “The Closing of the American Mind”</a>, by Wilfred McClay. <i>The Imaginative Conservative</i> 05/20/15.
<li><a href="http://s-usih.org/2012/11/bloom-beyond-culture-wars-or-how.html" target=_blank>Bloom Beyond the Culture Wars, or How The Closing of the American Mind Changed My Life: a Testimonial</a>, by Andrew Hartman. Society for US Intellectual History. 11/20/12.
<li><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-book-that-drove-them-crazy/article/634905" target=_blank>The Book That Drove Them Crazy: Allan Bloom’s ‘Closing of the American Mind’ 25 years later</a>, by Andrew Ferguson. <i>The Weekly Standard</i> 04/09/12.
<li><a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/who-closed-the-american-mind/" target=_blank>Who Closed the American Mind?</a>, by Patrick J. Deneen. <i>The American Conservative</i> 10/01/12. "Allan Bloom was brilliant, but wrong about Burke and multiculturalism."
<li><a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/12590#.WSseN7YrJsM" target=_blank>Re-Opening the American Mind</a>, by Sean Collins. <i>Spiked</i> 06/29/12.
<li><a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/96601/allan-bloom" target=_blank>Re-Opening the American Mind</a>, by Liel Leibovitz. <i>The Tablet</i> 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."
<li><a href="" target=_blank>“Openness” & "The Closing of the American Mind"</a>, by Roger Kimball. <i>The New Criterion</i> November 2007.
<li><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/09/18/closing-american-mind-20-years-later" target=_blank>'The Closing of the American Mind,' 20 Years Later</a>, by Donald Lazere. <i>Inside Higher Ed</i> 09/18/07.
<li><a href="http://www.albertmohler.com/2007/05/01/20-years-after-the-closing-of-the-american-mind/" target=_blank>20 Years After The Closing of the American Mind</a> AlbertMohler.com. [Audio] 05/01/07. Dr. Mohler, Peter Lawler and Mark Coppenger on what Bloom’s analysis means for today.
<li><a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/02/the-closing-of-the-american-mi" target=_blank><i>The Closing of the American Mind</i> Revisited</a>, by R.R. Reno. <i>First Things</i> 02/27/07.
<li><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n22/alexander-nehamas/swallowing-goldfish" target=_blank>Swallowing Goldfish</a>, by Alexander Nehamas. <i>London Review of Books</i> Vol. 9 No. 22 · 10 December 1987.
<li><a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1987/11/05/undemocratic-vistas/" target=_blank>Undemocratic Vistas</a>, by Martha C. Nussbaum. <i>New York Review of Books</i> November 5, 1987.
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<li><a href="" target=_blank>Reponse: David Bain, reply by Martha C. Nussbaum</a> <i>New York Review of Books</i> March 31, 1988.
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<li><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/allan-blooms-guide-to-college" target=_blank>Allan Bloom's Guide to College</a>, by Allan Feeney. <i>The New Yorker</i> 04/12/12.
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/books/the-groves-of-ignorance.html" target=_blank>The Groves of Ignorance</a>, by Roger Kimball. <i>New York Times</i> 04/05/87.
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