Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, became one of the most influential books of the last 50 years by instigating a battle over the soul of the American university that’s been raging ever since.
The book sold millions of copies, becoming a powerful weapon in Bloom’s fight against what he identified as a morally and intellectually crippling form of relativism infecting America’s educational system. Allen Bloom sought to remind his readers that the goal of education was not to become open to all ideas, but to cultivate the search for the best ideas.
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